At Forge, 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.
The Role:
This Software Engineer will support CADS and related customer/account domain work for critical Schwab integration and future-state migration efforts. Added US coverage will reduce delivery and knowledge concentration risk while supporting customer data, account lifecycle, legal entity, accreditation, KYC, and identity integration needs. The ideal candidate is collaborative, delivery-oriented, and comfortable working across highly integrated financial systems
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that support customer and account domain workflows.
- Support Schwab integration and future-state migration work across customer data, account models, identity, and related services.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations to clarify requirements and produce durable technical solutions.
- Build automated tests, participate in code reviews, and support production deployments.
- Create concise, articulate, and detailed technical documentation.
- Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of software engineering experience for production systems.
- Experience with backend development using C#, .NET, Java, TypeScript, or similar.
- Experience building APIs and working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or similar.
- Experience with CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and Agile delivery.
- Ability to understand domain workflows and translate requirements into maintainable software.
- Strong communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.
Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience with authentication, customer/account systems, KYC/KYB, Okta, or identity integrations.
- Experience with event-driven systems, Kafka, Dapr, CQRS, event sourcing, or similar patterns.
- Experience in fintech, financial services, broker-dealer, or regulated environments.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or modern cloud-native architecture.
- Working knowledge of private markets
For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $168,000-$200,000 + 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 as well as fingerprint and drug test.
Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test.
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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