Data Engineer, Data AI Platform Division, Tokyo

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo April 5 2026
  • 💴 ¥7.0M ~ ¥9.5M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 💬
    Business Japanese
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    3+ years experience required
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About Money Forward

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo

Money Forward is a fintech startup delivering tools to visualize and improve both individuals'​ and companies'​ financial health.

Key benefits

  • Small but diverse team
  • Great support for OSS
  • Relocation support

About the position

Since its establishment in December 2020, the Data Engineering Department has been responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure for data analysis and MLOps, aiming to achieve an “Autonomous Back Office” and “Data Democratization.”

We have a department focused on data utilization, and we are also actively hiring and training data analysts and analytics engineers within our product divisions. Our goal is to provide a strong foundation that allows data users to focus on core themes such as analysis and ML.

Technology Stack

  • Main languages: Python, SQL
  • Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
  • ETL: AWS DMS, AWS Glue, Cloud Composer, Apache Airflow, Trocco, Databricks, Fivetran
  • DWH/Analytics environment: BigQuery, Databricks

Tools Used

  • Configuration management: Terraform
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • Monitoring and logging: Datadog, Cloud Monitoring, CloudWatch
  • Project management: JIRA Cloud, Miro
  • Documentation: Kibela, Google Workspace

Responsibilities

  • Develop and operate cross-company data infrastructure.
  • Manage data integration and data pipelines.
  • Aggregate data from various internal products, services, and CRM tools into a data lake.
  • Appropriately distribute the data collected in the data lake to analysis and ML platforms.
  • Build and maintain data analysis infrastructure.
  • Optimize DWH performance.
  • Ensure data quality.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience as a data engineer.
  • Development experience with Python and SQL.
  • Development and operational experience using AWS
  • Japanese Language Proficiency: Business level
  • English Language Proficiency: Business level
    • Ability to perform the main duties listed above smoothly in English
    • Includes conducting interviews and people management tasks in English

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience in developing data lake and DWH infrastructure.
  • Experience in developing web applications.
  • Experience in data processing with distributed systems.
  • Experience in database performance tuning.
  • Development and operational experience using Google Cloud
  • Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.
    • Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users.

Compensation

¥7,008,000 ~ ¥9,504,000 annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    CV Screening

  2. 2

    First interview

    Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview

  3. 3

    Several interviews

    The number of interviews depends on the position.

  4. 4

    Final interview

    We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview.

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Meet Money Forward's Developers

Kostas Mavrikis left the Netherlands to join Money Forward in October 2023. As the first non-Japanese speaker in the Fukuoka office, he's been taking the initiative on Money Forward's Englishnization program, as well as introducing Kotlin, Scrumban, and European-style coffee meetings to his team.

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