Senior Web Engineer

This is an open senior engineering position supporting new product areas. The assignment is matched during interviews according to the candidate’s experience and interests. The role develops and operates products in areas including finance, HR, transactions, and accounts receivable and payable.

In the finance area, the work covers freee Card and FREENANCE by freee, including integration with related products, data-driven financial experiences, AI-assisted workflows, and high-reliability services. The transaction platform area includes freee Sign and freee Business Outsourcing Management, connecting contracts, invoicing, and payments. Current initiatives include improving receipt experiences, increasing sending through web sharing links, and developing matching functions between ordering and receiving parties.

The receivables and payables area focuses on automating and improving processes from settlement through accounting. Work includes using AI to enhance the process from invoice receipt to payment and journal entry creation, as well as applying AI-native development methods such as Claude Code. The HR area includes products such as freee HR, freee Benefits, and freee E-Learning, with opportunities to work on both new and large-scale products.

Required qualifications include experience using AI tools such as Claude beyond individual use and extending their adoption across a team, at least five years of development and operation experience with large-scale web applications, and a record of contributing beyond an assigned area by working proactively with other functions or teams to overcome obstacles and deliver results.

Additional experience considered valuable includes unlearning established technologies or processes and adapting to change; prioritizing technical debt and system risks from a business-value perspective and leading their resolution; leading organization-wide technology selection and architecture planning as a tech lead; contributing to product roadmap planning and supporting business strategy from an engineering perspective; leading development after customer-facing work such as FDE; and managing an engineering organization of more than 10 people. Experience in cross-organizational engineering initiatives involving development, recruiting, or evaluation is also listed.

The position is a permanent employee role with a three-month probationary period. The work location is the Tokyo office in Osaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo, although the location may change because of business conditions or office relocation. Working hours use a discretionary work system with eight deemed hours per day. Holidays and leave include weekends, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, condolence leave, paid leave granted on the joining date, and six paid days of sick leave per year. The listed insurance coverage includes employment insurance, workers’ accident compensation insurance, employees’ pension, and health insurance. Indoor smoking is prohibited. Online interviews are available.