Staff Engineer/Technical Architect, ERP Cross-Functional Engineering Department, Tokyo

**About the company:** Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo Money Forward is a fintech startup delivering tools to visualize and improve both individuals'​ and companies'​ financial health. **Responsibilities:** Build a community of architects across product teams Provide department-wide architecture vision, strategy, and execution Mentor other members in architecture Contribute to the creation and review of technical specs/design for critical initiatives Contribute to code review for all initiatives they’re involved with Requirements Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects Cloud and infrastructure: multi-account architecture, advanced VPC design, Infrastructure-as-Code mastery, cost optimization API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns Observability and reliability engineering: implementation of tracing and logging across polyglot environments, definition of SLO/SLA frameworks, capacity planning and load testing Leadership and influence: track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes. Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users. Japanese ability Compensation ¥10,008,000 ~ ¥16,008,000 annually. **Requirements:** Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects Cloud and infrastructure: multi-account architecture, advanced VPC design, Infrastructure-as-Code mastery, cost optimization API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns Observability and reliability engineering: implementation of tracing and logging across polyglot environments, definition of SLO/SLA frameworks, capacity planning and load testing Leadership and influence: track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes. Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users. Japanese ability **Compensation:** ¥10,008,000 ~ ¥16,008,000 annually.