Client Facing Forward Deployed Engineer (Tokyo Onsite Only)

Visual Alpha Forward Deployed Engineer Role (Tokyo Onsite)

Join Visual Alpha to use the latest technologies to disrupt the status-quo financial industry!

Visual Alpha is a B2B fintech startup based in central Tokyo that provides an innovative AI powered data analytics service to financial institutions, including institutional investors, financial data publishers and accounting firms. We develop our full stack web applications using the latest AI and Cloud technologies. We are currently hiring for a senior software engineer role to design and implement features on our core software service. 

Opportunity

• Work for a fast growing B2B fintech startup to innovate investment management

• Join a diverse international team of data science and investment experts

• Become one of the early members of a promising startup

Role

• Act as the product expert in front of clients, bridging business needs and engineering execution.

• Analyze client workflows and requirements, and translate ambiguous needs into clear technical and functional specs.

• Design and refine client-specific workflows and produce solution proposals covering architecture, data flows, and scope.

• Partner with sales on deal strategy and pre-sales, and unblock technical objections.

• Work with engineering to validate feasibility, prioritize requirements, and ensure delivery quality and schedule.

• Coordinate with support and delivery teams to ensure smooth onboarding, rollout, and post-go-live success.

• Typical time allocation: sales support 30%, requirement analysis and proposal 40%, solution design 30%. 

Required Skills

• Deep understanding of the investment management and broader financial services industry, including workflows and data structures.

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently tackle complex issues.

• Excellent solution design, proposal writing, and technical documentation skills.

• Hands-on experience in large-scale system architecture and database design.

• Self-motivated, client-oriented thinking, ability to learn new technologies quickly

• Native Japanese proficiency with working-level English

Desired Skills

• Consulting and software development project management skill (significant advantage)

• Strong at mathematical calculation and accounting knowledge (significant advantage)

• Experience implementing various design patterns

• Experience creating web-services and/or AI models