Staff Engineer/Technical Architect @ fintech company

the Cross-Functional Engineering Department was established in 2023. Our mission is to integrate Money Forward’s ERP products at a feature level, enhance collaboration amongst the ERP development teams, and to make development m

Main Responsibilities:

• Within the ERP Development Division:

• Build a community of architects across product teams
• Provide department-wide architecture vision, strategy, and execution
• Mentor other members in architecture
• Contribute to the creation and review of technical specs/design for critical initiatives
• Contribute to code review for all initiatives they're involved with

Career Growth / Experience:

• Experience launching a high-potential product from scratch
• Work in a team where English is the official language
• Plan and lead SRE initiatives with significant autonomy
• Develop and implement strategies toward ideal outcomes

Job Satisfaction and Experience Gained

Setting and leading the department-wide architectural direction for several disparate product teams, creating a more unified engineering organization in the process.

Required Skills / Experience:

• Architecture and systems design: distributed systems patterns, design of domain-oriented microservices, hands-on experience leading large-scale migration/refactor projects
• Cloud and infrastructure: multi-account architecture, advanced VPC design, Infrastructure-as-Code mastery, cost optimization
• API platform and connectivity: deep knowledge of API design, end-to-end API lifecycle ownership

Preferred Skills / Experience:

• Security and compliance: design and review of zero-trust architectures, practical compliance experience, secret management patterns
• Observability and reliability engineering: implementation of tracing and logging across polyglot environments, definition of SLO/SLA frameworks, capacity planning and load testing
• Leadership and influence: track record of coaching Staff/Principal Engineers and standardizing architecture, strong facilitation skills
• Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.

Language Skills:

• Japanese: Not required but nice to have
• English: Business