Senior Engineering Manager (SMB Product Development Division), Tokyo

Overview Since its founding in 2012, Money Forward has grown into one of Japan’s leading Fintech and SaaS powerhouses. Today, our B2B SaaS offerings alone serve over 200,000 paying businesses, driving massive digital transformation across the region. In this role, you will lead engineering teams within the SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) Product Development Division. This division builds and scales Money Forward’s flagship suite of products—the very core of our portfolio and our largest business driver. As we scale, we face a thrilling dual challenge: maintaining the absolute stability and reliability required for critical business infrastructure, while rapidly innovating with modern, AI-driven capabilities. We are looking for an ambitious engineering leader who wants to manage large-scale organizations, modernize complex domains, and make a tangible social impact on millions of businesses. Our SMB Product Portfolio Includes: Accounting Software ‘Money Forward Cloud Accounting’ Quotation, delivery, and invoice creation system ‘Money Forward Cloud Invoice’ Tax Return software for sole proprietors ‘Money Forward Cloud Tax Return’ AI-driven tax filing for sole proprietors 'Money Forward Cloud AI Tax Return' Company establishment service ‘Money Forward Cloud Company Registration’ Start-up support service for sole proprietors ‘Money Forward Cloud Business Registration’ Responsibilities and Duties As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly diverse, global development organization. You will partner closely with Product Managers (PdMs), Agile Coaches, and executive leadership to drive the growth of our products, engineering culture, and business. Organizational Growth & Scaling: Recruit, evaluate, mentor, and retain top engineering talent within a cross-border, multi-location global team. Strategic Planning: Align technical roadmaps with business strategies to ensure the continuous and disruptive growth of our systems. Stakeholder & Resource Management: Balance engineering resources, manage stakeholder expectations, and drive alignment to execute complex product roadmaps. Technical Leadership: Champion future-proof architectures, systematically address technical debt, and foster engineering excellence. Division-Level Impact: Propose and execute organizational strategies that elevate the performance of the broader SMB Product Development Division, looking beyond just your immediate team. Expected Role and Career Path Onboarding Phase: Initially, you will step into a leadership role managing an engineering team within one of our SMB product areas. This hands-on phase allows you to deeply understand our architecture, build relationships with stakeholders, and master our operational frameworks before expanding your scope. Growth Phase: You will be trusted with mission-critical organizational and product goals—identifying bottlenecks in people, processes, or systems, and resolving them autonomously across broader teams. Future Trajectory: We view this role as a pipeline for executive engineering leadership. Successful leaders in this position are expected to fast-track into Deputy Division Manager or Division Manager roles. Why This Position is Compelling Scale a Flagship Suite: You will lead the engineering efforts behind Money Forward’s most profitable and high-traffic product suite. Balancing rapid feature iteration with enterprise-grade stability is a high-level challenge rarely found elsewhere. Drive the AI Revolution: Under our corporate AI Vision, we are focusing on integrating AI agents and LLMs to redefine automated workflows. We are looking for leaders who think holistically about AI beyond basic code generation. You will be responsible for restructuring working styles and engineering processes to maximize the strategic benefit of AI agents, leading your teams through a historic technological pivot that transforms both our product capabilities and how we build them. You will lead teams through a historic technological pivot. Unrivaled Global Culture: Over 50% of our engineering organization is international. You will hone your cross-cultural leadership skills in a genuinely global environment, making your management profile highly competitive on an international scale. Required Skills and Experience Organizational Management: Proven track record of improving operational processes, structuring engineering teams, and optimizing organizational performance. People Management : Strong experience in engineering mentorship, career pathing, performance evaluations, and driving technical recruitment from requirement definition to closing. Stakeholder Alignment: Experience collaborating with Product Managers and managing expectations with senior or executive leadership. Technical Background: Solid foundational experience in Web Application Development, architecture design, and a strong capability to engage in deep technical discussions with Tech Leads. Preferred Skills and Experience Experience managing engineering organizations of several dozen members. Experience managing international, multi-national or remote-first teams. Experience with financial systems, ERP software, or complex B2B SaaS architectures. A proven track record of successfully refactoring monolithic architectures or systematically reducing complex technical debt. Familiarity with leveraging AI tools to optimize internal development velocities or embedding AI/ML capabilities into software products. Experience or familiarity with our core technology stack, particularly Ruby, Go, and/or Kotlin. Language Requirements Japanese: Conversational level (Comfortable with day-to-day internal communication). English: Business Level (equivalent to TOEIC 800 or above) Note: If you do not have a TOEIC 800+ score, you will be asked to take a company-specified test during the selection process (typically after the first interview). Who We’re Looking For Resonates with Money Forward’s Mission, Vision, Values, and Culture (MVVC). Thrives in ambiguity and can translate highly abstract business requirements into executable technical execution. A proactive, growth-minded leader who constantly challenges the status quo and takes extreme ownership. Passionate about sharing knowledge, fostering a psychological safety culture, and lifting the capabilities of the engineers around them. Work Environment At Money Forward, we provide an environment where we can create world-class services together, and we are looking forward to welcoming you. Provided PC Specs: We provide PCs equipped with the latest CPUs (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements and replacements with the latest OS are also possible. Systems to Enhance the Development Environment: Peripheral devices necessary for work (such as displays, mice, keyboards) can be purchased as office supplies. Generally, you can choose from standard products (catalog), and if conditions are met, you can apply for non-standard products as well.