Forge Global

Senior Software Engineer I, Broker Platform Engineering

Forge Global$168K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Backend-first Full-Stack experience in C#, Java, or similar, alongside React/Typescript
  • Experience in Financial Services with customer-facing products
  • Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and code quality management
  • Knowledge of real-time data processing and event-driven architectures with Kafka and DAPR
  • Experience with distributed caching using Redis
  • Proficient in PostgreSQL or RDS with cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Responsibilities

  • Deliver software on-time with accurate estimates
  • Take ownership of production changes and monitor their performance
  • Integrate APIs, ensuring data accuracy across distributed systems
  • Provide constructive code review feedback to team members
  • Collaborate with product to understand and implement technical requirements
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to design solutions based on business needs
  • Support system operations to achieve high availability

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with onsite requirements in SF, CA 2-3 days a week
  • Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Focus on using low-latency technologies
  • High emphasis on implementing software best practices
  • Environment encouraging code review and peer mentoring
Full Job Description
The Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Broker Platform team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality experiences to our Brokers, working with modern, low-latency technologies and implementing software best practices to incrementally advance our trading and broker operations platform. Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering, you'll drive seamless integration of data technologies into our products, setting new standards for user experience and application performance

Location: This is a hybrid role where you'll be onsite 2-3 days a week in our SF, CA office.

Responsibilities:
  • Deliver software on-time with accurate estimates
  • Take ownership of changes to ensure they run in production with appropriate monitoring
  • Integrate internal and external APIs, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across distributed system
  • Provide quality code review feedback to prevent production issues and help other team members grow
  • Partner with product on understanding requirements, review technical requirements, and take/implement actionable tasks from the team's board/backlog
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and design solutions implementing them
  • Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved

Qualifications:
  • 5-8 years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience in the field
  • Backend-first Full-Stack engineering experience in C#, Java, or an equivalent compiled object-oriented programming language on the back-end and React / Typescript on the front-end
  • Experience working in the Financial Services space specifically on a customer facing product
  • Proven expertise in working with CI/CD pipelines, managing application deployments, and ensuring code quality
  • Knowledge of real-time data processing and event-drive architectures using technologies like Kafka and DAPR
  • Experience designing and managing distributed caching strategies using Redis
  • Proficient in Databases like PostgreSQL or RDS, SQL queries, and experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar (Azure, GCP, etc)
  • Familiarity with version control systems like Git and platforms like GitHub and Agile project management tools such as JIRA

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience as a software engineer for a product engineering team
  • Experience with deploying and scaling containerized microservices using Kubernetes in production environments
  • Experience using large language models and agentic workflows
  • Experience with Event Sourcing and frameworks such as Marten

For residents of San Francisco, CA / Bay Area the annual base 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

About Forge Global

Forge Global is a financial services company that provides a marketplace for pre-IPO investments. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Forge Global's platform allows investors to buy and sell shares in private companies, providing liquidity to early investors and employees. The company has partnerships with over 200 private companies and has facilitated over $10 billion in transactions. Forge Global's mission is to democratize access to private markets and provide investors with opportunities for growth and diversification.
Learn more about Forge Global
Size
200 employees
Market Cap
$260.4 million
Industry
NASDAQ

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