At Forge (NYSE: FRGE), we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.
With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.
Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.
Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.
Location: Hybrid in our San Francisco, CA office
The Role:
We are seeking a talented senior front-end engineer, specializing in React typescript and Server-side Rendering principles, to join our growing organization. In this role, we are looking for someone who possesses expertise in modern front-end technologies and a passion for delivery. The right candidate will have a relentless commitment to Customers through leading by example in the following areas:
- Champion highly functional iterative delivery partnerships with Product, Design and other engineering teams
- Build our web apps using React, ensuring responsive, accessible, performant, and amazing Customer experiences
- Evangelize and propagate the use of reusable local components utilizing Tailwind design tokens to realize simplified reuse
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and translate requirements into scalable and robust software solutions
- Partner with domain and data providers in the integration and iterative delivery of end-to-end solutions
- Ensure code quality, maintainability, and best practices through code reviews and mentorship
- Advocate for the Customer through experimentation, data driven decisioning and other mechanisms
- Stay updated on the latest frontend trends, tools, and best practices to ensure our platform remains cutting-edge
- Contribute and inspire a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
Responsibilities:
- Gain an understanding of business context, current systems, operations/functionality and proposed new requirements.
- Build and enhance web applications using SPA and SSR web frameworks such as React and Remix
- Hands on contribution to technical design/architecture, code, and overall team delivery
- Influence and own technical decisions for front end application design and domain integration
- Mentor team of distributed junior and senior engineers, particularly in terms of front-end design and technique
- Act as a technical lead for a team of engineers
- Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation
- Act as a consultant with other teams on front end applications
- Investigate and recommend guidelines for use of internal and external frameworks and new technologies, as/when they align to business needs
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Expertise in building externally facing and highly available UI experiences in React or other frameworks such as Next.js or Angular
- Experience partnering with UI/UX designers and leveraging design systems, component libraries, charting libraries, and tables/grids
- Proven track-record of teamwork and rapid delivery, with demonstrated examples of supporting and guiding other team members past engineering impediments
- Expertise in build optimization and bundling tools
- Knowledge of Event Driven Architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSocket, and other web communication protocols
- Deep knowledge of patterns, antipatterns, best practices, and methodologies for building large scale Customer-facing solutions
- Physical requirements: operate a computer for 8 hours per day; give and receive detailed information through verbal and written communication
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience building an application using a backend for frontend (BFF) architecture and/or lambda functions
- Knowledge of Cloudflare as a CDN and caching layer
- Experience programming in C# and .NET technologies
- Knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure
- FinTech or Financial Services industry experience or other highly regulated related field
For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $210,000 - $230,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors
Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.
Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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