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Full-time

Japanese (N1)

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SRE

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This role involves building and maintaining the operational support system for a new cloud payment product, requiring high technical skills and experience.

About this role

This senior operations/maintenance engineer role (seconded to Money Forward Kessai) strengthens Japan's ops structure for a new cloud-payment (remittance-platform) launch. With production login and first-investigation authority concentrated in the Japan team, you are the hub for rapid initial response and technical support to domestic stakeholders (CS, operators). Work: answering technical questions from Japanese customer support and second-line support; initial investigation/troubleshooting of production issues and escalation/sharing; coordinating bug investigation, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes with the Vietnam dev team (ticket management, spec confirmation, improvement proposals); building the Japan ops/maintenance team, documentation and standardizing/systematizing/automating processes (actively using AI tools); and failure-precursor detection and continuous reliability improvement via monitoring/log platforms. You lead building the ops structure and automation from scratch, later mentoring members. Required: 5+ years of web-application development (language-agnostic, static-typed preferred); log investigation, SQL data extraction and source-reading to identify issues; business-level Japanese; English around TOEIC 600+ (to coordinate specs/investigations with the Vietnam dev team via chat/meetings); strong interest in AI for efficiency; incident-response and improvement-process experience. Preferred: production ops/SRE; Go; Fintech/payments; AWS/GCP; offshore/distributed-team collaboration; AI-assisted development. Stack: Go (Gin); MySQL; Docker, Nginx, Redis, SQS, Kafka; AWS, Kubernetes; GitHub, CircleCI, Terraform, Datadog. Full-time, salary 7–11M JPY/yr, hybrid (2+ office days/week), based in Tamachi, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Job details

Location
Tokyo
Salary
7 - 11 million yen
Employment
Full-time
Japanese
N1
Visa sponsorship
Visa Sponsor
Posted
2026-07-09
Category
Software & IT

About Money Forward

Money Forward is a Japanese fintech company offering personal-finance management apps and cloud back-office SaaS for accounting, payroll and expenses.

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Company details

Size
Mid-size
Founded
2012
HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Employees
1,001–5,000
Industry
Fintech · SaaS
Funding
Publicly traded

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