Forge
Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead), Marketplace Middleware Engineering
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:
Forge’s software engineering team is passionate about innovation and building scalable solutions that drive liquidity and growth in the private market. Our teams are leveraging a broad range of new technologies and are well-versed in delivering high quality, innovative solutions. We thrive on moving fast, delivering value, and living our values of being bold, humble, and accountable.
We are seeking passionae engineers with at least 8 years of experience delivering innovative software solutions that are scalable, secure, and easy to maintain. The ideal candidate thrives in team settings, enjoys collaboration and mentoring engineers, and focuses on delivering value and making an impact.
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain web applications with marketplace middleware-specific business logic
- Communicate with stakeholders. Work with Architects, Tech Leads, Product, and Design members to arrive at solutions that produce customer and business value.
- Mentor junior engineers. Guide members of the development team on internal and external frameworks, software development best practices, and new technologies.
- Develop concise, articulate, and detailed technical documentation
- Leverage Agile and Lean practices
- Lead a workstream, partner with product on requirements, lead technical requirements, and plan actionable tasks for the team
- Design, build, and maintain automated tests (unit and at times integration), ensuring high code quality
- Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience in the field
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience as a technical lead for a product engineering team
- Expertise building APIs with C# and .NET
- Experience developing event-driven systems leveraging Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
- Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, or similar approaches
- Experience with SQL / Relational Databases
- Experience interpreting and contributing to system design
- Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery
- Fintech or Financial services industry experience with working knowledge of financial regulators and their concerns
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with KYC (Know Your Customer) workflows
- Experience with multiple server-side programming languages
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) or Domain Driven Development
- Experience with Marten for Event Store DB
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and managing application deployments
- Experience with scaling systems to millions of users
- Working knowledge of the private market
For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $209,000-$240,000 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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