Senior Backend Software Engineer (Go), Accounting Report System Development

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Job Description

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building brand-new reporting features for our accounting cloud service, mainly using Go.

“Money Forward Cloud ERP” is a cloud-based composable ERP (modular ERP) that has our own SaaS applications for corporate back-office operations from Accounting, Finances, and Human Resources fields as its module applications. And the “Money Forward Cloud Accounting Plus” is an accounting module from the composable ERP modules.

Our team is developing new reporting features for the accounting module, which our users desire. The new reporting features allow users to check their company’s financial status easily and quickly. We have to handle large amounts of data to calculate figures for reporting, it is crucial to consider efficiency in processing to provide better UX.

Responsibilities

• Develop reporting functionalities on our cloud accounting product for over mid-sized companies with Go
• Develop customizable reporting functionalities
• Write scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Lead team members from a technical perspective
• Participate in discussions on product specifications or customer feedback with members from other functions
• Create system requirements that include functional and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with team members, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Designer, and any other stakeholders
• Ship software to the production environment
• Monitor the production environment and if any issues happen, fix and recover the system
• Share your knowledge with team members and other engineers
• Contribute to improvements in the development process, communication, team building, etc

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in leading product development with Go
• Experience with RDBM
• Experience with system design
• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum team
• Team player
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Solution-oriented and result-driven
• Be able to relocate to Japan and commute to the office in Tokyo 2 days per week

Nice-to-have

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

• Experience with accounting domain service development and operations (e.g. accounting, reporting) 
• Experience with AWS or other public cloud services
• Experience with infrastructure building
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with React.js or other frontend technologies
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software
• Interest in learning Japanese

Language Requirement

• Japanese: Not required (Interests in learning is a plus)
• English: Fluent in both written and verbal

About the Company

“Money Forward Cloud ERP” is a cloud-based composable ERP (modular ERP) that has our own SaaS applications for business back-office operations from Accounting, Finances, and Human Resources fields as its module applications.

Our team is developing Public APIs and API platforms for those products. Public APIs enable our ERP to offer a high degree of integration with other third-party applications. This allows our customers to build a more comprehensive view of their operations and data across different functional areas and systems. Also by designing commonly used API platforms, we aim to improve UX and development productivity.

Salary Range

• Min 8,000,000 - Max 12,000,000 Japanese yen / year (Gross)

Location, Remote Work

• Location: Tokyo, Japan
• Remote work: Hybrid/Partial remote with 2 days of in-office work per week

Working Hours

• Flexible Working Hours (No core time)

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays (16 national holidays in 2023)
• Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year.
• Summer vacation days: 3 days
• Winter vacations days: 2 days

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (No limit upgrade or purchase when needed for development is available upon approval.)
• Seminar participation support
• Book purchases
• Copyright of OSS belongs to individuals

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

• Working Visa
• Flight ticket to Japan
• Signing Bonus
• Temporary fully furnished apartment for the first month