Engineering Lead Position (HRS)

Money Forward aims to move people’s lives forward by offering various SaaS applications for Back-office operations and eliminating non-essential work from complex daily tasks, and radically changing the quality of and time spent on work.

The Cross Development Division, within the HR Solution Department, is a specialized team focused on creating a positive impact across all HR products. Our mission is to improve the re-architecture and technical debt situation of our HR solution products and enable initiatives that maximize the output of product development teams. We champion the use of modern technologies like Kotlin and React and provide cross-functional development support for urgent and high-value projects.

To spearhead these critical initiatives, we are seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer with a strong leadership background. You will be responsible for leading projects primarily using Kotlin and Typescript (React). Our products are in a growth phase, so we are actively seeking an individual who can not only contribute technically but also guide the architecture and development strategy to accommodate future user expansion at scale.

The Engineering Lead Role is very crucial at Money Forward India where the candidate will be directly responsible for success of the department having ownership Globally to coordinate with JP and Vietnam teams. In Summary below will be expectations but not limited to

Leadership -

Development Cross Dev

Balanced Execution

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance backend systems with Kotlin or Java, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance frontend systems with Typescript React, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  
• Lead collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams to conceptualize, architect, and implement new features that enhance our SaaS offerings.
  
• Understand existing features and define the best short, medium and long term strategy to migrate or re-architect systems to support our SaaS platform’s growth and scalability for.
  
• Drive the technical strategy to identify and address issues which affect our products, making key technical decisions which define our future engineering direction.
  
• Proactively identify and address cross-product performance bottlenecks, ensuring the efficiency and responsiveness of our services.
  
• Design and implement robust and maintainable APIs that support both internal and external integrations.
  
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to translate requirements into high-quality, impactful solutions.
  
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering technical excellence and a culture of continuous learning and development within the team.
  
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation for systems, APIs, and processes.
  
• Collaborate with support teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues promptly.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  
• 8+ years of overall hands-on experience in software engineering, developing and operating web applications, especially using technologies: Kotlin/Java and React.
  
• Experience with design, development, and operation of service-oriented or microservices architecture, demonstrating an understanding of scalable and modular architecture.
  
• Experience in architecture design and technology selection, showcasing the ability to make informed decisions for optimal solutions.
  
• Demonstrated ability to independently analyze, design, and refactor using various design patterns and identify and address anti-patterns.
  
• Proficiency in tuning middleware components, including database optimization and performance improvement strategies.
  
• Flexibility and adaptability to work with diverse technology stacks, with motivation to learn technologies like Ruby on Rails, Frontend frameworks and others in order to optimize our new systems.
  
• Proven track record of actively participating in team-based quality improvement efforts through code reviews and test code implementation.
  
• Hands-on experience with test design, creation, and operation using documentation or testing tools like JUnit, Kotest, RSpec, Jest, or similar.
  
• Experience in mentoring other engineers, demonstrating the ability to guide and support fellow team members in their professional growth.
  
• Experience in managing incident response, including efficient discovery, thorough investigation of root causes, prompt resolution, and implementation of permanent solutions.
  

Nice-to-have

• Experience in leading engineering teams.
  
• Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React or Vue.js.
  
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  
• Experience with event driven architectures and similar patterns to optimize performance across our systems.
  
• Previous experience working with Scrum and Agile development methodologies, contributing to efficient and collaborative project delivery.
  
• Previous exposure to a SaaS environment will be considered an advantage.
  

Tech stack

• Backend: Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, gRPC, Sidekiq Pro, RSpec
  
• Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Jest
  
• Infrastructure: Amazon EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3
  
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  
• Repositories: GitHub
  
• Project management: JIRA
  
• Monitoring: Datadog, Rollbar
  
• CI/CD: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
  
• Communication Tools: Zoom, Slack, Figma, Miro