Design and operate shared identity, authentication and authorization services using Ruby or Kotlin, leading integrations and migrations across Money Forward products in an English-working team.
About this role
Money Forward is hiring a Principal Engineer to own developer productivity as a company-wide capability, as a partner to the CTO and engineering leadership. The engineering organization is growing in Japan and Vietnam.
The principal engineer leads developer productivity and developer experience work across Money Forward Cloud and the wider group. This includes surfacing real productivity problems with data and deciding where to invest, evolving the Backstage-based developer portal and its templates and golden paths, defining and measuring engineering metrics such as DORA and SPACE with tools like Apache DevLake and BigQuery, and leading tooling and CI/CD programs, including rollout of AI tools and agents on the internal AI platform. The role also spreads good team practices company-wide.
Applicants need hands-on software engineering experience in at least one of developer tools and internal platforms, SRE or infrastructure, or as a tech lead, experience driving technical change across teams without direct authority, and strong communication in both English and Japanese. Experience leading developer-productivity or platform engineering initiatives is preferred.
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