Software Engineer II (1-year contract)

Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Contract
July 18, 2024

Moneytree is looking to help people & trusted organizations unlock the power of data for good. Our financial data platform, Moneytree LINK, enables individuals and businesses to share their confidential financial information with trusted third parties, such as financial institutions and fintech service providers.

Our technology is used by major banks, accounting software companies and fintech companies in Japan, including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, TKC and Yayoi, and other enterprise clients. Our apps are also used and trusted by millions of individuals.

The LINK Data team plays a vital role in achieving this mission by connecting our data platform to over 2600 data sources across Japan. As a LINK Data Engineer, you will work on designing and developing ETL software to power our data aggregation system: the technology at the heart of our fintech platform.

If you like hard problems, consider yourself rational, love to impact large numbers of people, are passionate about quality and hate seeing imperfections, we trust you to bring your attention to detail and creative problem-solving to bear on the challenging data problems in this team.

We give you the freedom and responsibility to do good work while we provide the best tools and empower you to use them well. We are flexible, supportive, and meritocratic. We are an international and diverse team. We offer a healthy work-life balance, work together to help you grow professionally, and reward your talent and positive attitude.

Join us if you:

Look for novel solutions to build resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
Enjoy the challenge of pulling out signal from noise and turning it into actionable data.
Want to build a platform relied on by millions of users for financial insights, while protecting their privacy.
Are thinking beyond short-term needs and think about challenges the team will face in 6 months to 1 year.
Are a fan of constant improvement and automation, and you hate doing the same operation twice.
Like to challenge the status quo and generate ideas for improving the team.

You will spend time on the following:

Developing our ETL pipelines and tooling around them.
Building out a robust web scraping and data parsing system.
Identifying opportunities and lead initiatives to make our ETL process more resilient and fault-tolerant.
Mentoring junior engineers and pairing with your peers on a regular basis.
Developing a culture of continuous improvement in the team.
Building tooling to accelerate resolution of or prevent recurrence of common failure cases in the data extraction stage.
Assisting the team with inbound support work and improving our systems as part of that work.

What we’re looking for:

You have experience using TypeScript and JavaScript in a professional setting.
You can write high-quality, well-tested code and you are familiar with both OOP and functional programming.
You have experience writing code and delivering software using state-of-the-art CI/CD practices, and operating that software in a production environment.
A background in data processing techniques and proven experience in building and maintaining ETL pipelines for a wide range of data sources.
You can compare implementation options and make the correct technical and cost tradeoffs to deliver an optimal solution.
You always advocate for technical excellence, but you are open to change when needed.
You will communicate in English on a daily basis.

Nice to have:

Experience with Ruby on Rails, AWS CloudFormation, Step Functions, SWF or Heroku.
You have worked on web scraping, parsing and data extraction of both dynamic SPA and static HTML web pages.
JLPT N3 or better Japanese language proficiency.

Location & Benefits

Working remotely from anywhere in Japan
Flexible work hours without core time (Common working hours: 10am - 4pm at JST)
Employee stock option program participation.
Referral bonus of 250,000 JPY per successful hire.
Communication allowance (10,000 JPY/month).
Remote work allowance (3000 JPY/month).
20 annual paid leave.
10 annual sick and care leave.
Health and social insurance support.
Ability to work from overseas for short periods.
Learning support.

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About Moneytree

Moneytree is a fin-tech start-up founded by three foreign entrepreneurs in Tokyo. Their Moneytree Link product provides a "utility layer for connecting financial services" that serves banks and other fin-tech companies, but they also have a popular consumer app that helps people manage their finances. They're a truly international company with an English-first environment and a high technical skill level for engineers, so it sounds like a really great place to work!

Salary
Moneytree's salary structure is designed to offer a base salary along with stock options. Stock options are still a relative rarity in Japan, so Moneytree is one of a reasonably small list of Japanese companies offering them.
Japanese Language Policy
Japanese is not required for engineers, but it is desirable.

As a customer-centric company building products for Japanese customers, Japanese fluency is required for product managers and product designers in order to do users research, product discovery etc.
Visa Sponsorship
- With the current pandemic, we are only accepting applicants with valid working visas in Japan.
- We offer support for visa renewal to new hires with valid working visas in Japan.
Paid Leave
Moneytree's paid time off policy is awesome.

They offer 20 paid holidays in addition to 10 sick/care leave days.

The legal minimum number of paid time off days in Japan is 10 for an employee's first year, so this is what you'll get at the majority of companies. The fact that Moneytree doubles this to 20 really makes them stand out from other companies in Tokyo.

And then there's their sick day policy. Since these aren't legally mandated in Japan, most companies don't have them at all. Moneytree really goes above and beyond here with 10.
Benefits
💹 Employee stock option program participation

💻 New tech gear

🏠 Remote work allowance

📕 Book purchases

🏋 Gym benefit

👶 Financial support for childcare costs

👶 Parental Leave

👍 Residential rent tax benefits (i.e. company housing / 'shataku')

🧡 Communication (phone + internet bills) support allowance (10,000 JPY/month)

💛 Referral bounty

🚃 Commuter allowance

🏥 Healthcare insurance

💟 Social security / insurance benefits included
Engineer Interview Process
This may depend somewhat on the position but in general, the steps are as follows:
- CV screening (+ survey to fill out for some positions)
- Casual screening meeting (onsite or remote)
- Pair programming
- Topgrading
- Provisional offer + reference check
Remote Work
Moneytree is a remote-first company, so you can work remotely from anywhere in Japan. Those who wish to work from their Tokyo office are allowed to (as long as there's not a state of emergency in effect), but it's also fine to work 100% remotely. Their hybrid approach ensures that everyone can work in the style that allows them to feel secure and safe.

Even once COVID-19 is no longer a concern, Moneytree intends to continue their full remote policy.

※ You will be required to come to Japan if you are living abroad.
Work style
Work hours: 10:00-19:00, core working hours 10:00-16:00
Diversity
Moneytree has been a globally-minded, diverse company from the start. It was founded by 3 foreigners and over 50% of their total members are from outside of Japan, with over 20 nationalities represented. Women account for around 1/3 of their staff, which is on the higher side for tech start-ups.

They maintain a meritocratic culture and conduct quarterly performance reviews with feedback from managers, plus 360 feedback from 3 key people you work closely with cross-functionally.

This helps them track staff performance in an objective way regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender (including transgender), age, sexual orientation, or beliefs (including lack of religion or beliefs).