AI-powered robo-advisor and wealth management platform for retail and institutional investors
FOLIO is a Tokyo-based online brokerage running a polyglot backend (Scala, Java, Go) on AWS and GCP with Kubernetes orchestration, Redshift analytics, and observability via Datadog. The engineering-heavy hiring mix (11 engineers, 2 data) skews toward backend and microservices work—reflected in active projects around API development, monitoring improvements, and a data utilization roadmap. Pain points cluster around accelerating development velocity and building out internal data infrastructure, suggesting infrastructure maturity is a current constraint.
FOLIO, founded in 2015, operates as a public company offering retail and institutional wealth management through three main products: ROBOPRO (an AI-driven robo-advisor), Omakase Toshi (a simplified auto-advisory service), and 4RAP (a discretionary management platform for financial institutions). The company targets both individual investors seeking simplified access to asset allocation and financial institutions seeking white-label or partnership models. Operations span engineering, data, and sales teams across Tokyo, with active development on microservices infrastructure, backend APIs for web and mobile clients, and a data analysis platform to support product optimization.
Scala, Java, Go for backend; React and TypeScript for frontend; AWS and GCP for cloud infrastructure; Kubernetes (EKS, ECS), Redshift for data, Datadog for monitoring, and GitLab for CI/CD.
Microservices and monitoring improvements, backend API development for web and mobile, data utilization strategy, 4RAP platform implementation, and building an internal data analysis infrastructure.
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