Senior Engineering Manager (SMB Product Development Division), 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:** 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. Requirements 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. Japanese: Conversational level (Comfortable with day-to-day internal communication). English: Business Level (equivalent to TOEIC 800 or above) Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. 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. Compensation ¥10,008,000 ~ ¥15,000,000 annually. **Requirements:** 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. Japanese: Conversational level (Comfortable with day-to-day internal communication). English: Business Level (equivalent to TOEIC 800 or above) **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. 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. **Compensation:** ¥10,008,000 ~ ¥15,000,000 annually.