Oversee the overall security of Money Forward Kessai, collaborating with developers and information system staff to maintain and enhance security.
About this role
This Engineering Manager leads Money Forward's data platform team, responsible for building and operating scalable, reliable, cost-effective data infrastructure that powers data-driven products and analytics. The role manages 4-8 engineers building high-volume data pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and data warehouse solutions, balancing team leadership and hands-on technical work in roughly a 7:3 ratio. Duties include setting team goals, driving pipeline/ingestion/transformation design, defining data quality and SLA/SLO standards, ensuring high availability and scalability, evaluating new tools, meeting data governance/security/compliance requirements, and managing project timelines and resources.
Requirements: a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience), 3+ years of engineering management experience, 5+ years building and operating large-scale data platforms, ideally at a high-scale SaaS or data-intensive company. Strong programming background (e.g. Python, Java, Scala, Go); hands-on experience with batch/streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data warehouses/OLAP, real-time streaming (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming), tools like Apache NiFi, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ClickHouse/Snowflake, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure); and a deep understanding of distributed systems.
Business-level English (TOEIC 700+ or equivalent) is required; Japanese is welcome but not required. Full-time, Minato-ku Tokyo, salary JPY 6,000,000-9,000,000/year, hybrid work (minimum 2 office days/week) under a discretionary labor system with possible flextime.
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