Software Engineer

Forgepoint Inc

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years experience as a product software engineer with a proven track record of shipping software
  • Ability to translate scoped requirements into reliable product code, working across the stack
  • Commitment to code quality, simplicity, and existing code patterns
  • Experience in systematic debugging and testing with a focus on production outcomes
  • Product mindset with ability to connect technical choices to user value and experience
  • Effective communicator with strong collaboration skills and aptitude for learning unfamiliar systems
  • Ambitious, resourceful, action-oriented team player, passionate about supporting American manufacturing

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship product improvements for both frontend and backend
  • Translate requirements into reliable software and ensure transition to production
  • Write clear, maintainable code without unnecessary complexity
  • Test thoroughly, investigate failures, and address root causes
  • Debug and enhance workflows, product experiences, and integrations
  • Engage in code reviews, providing and incorporating feedback to enhance product ownership

Benefits

  • Top-tier salary and equity
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Dinner provided at the office
  • Unlimited access to Celsius drinks
Full Job Description
The Role

This is a true 0→1 product engineering role. You'll take real customer problems and well-scoped requirements, turn them into product improvements, and ship them end-to-end-from implementation and testing through rollout and production follow-through.

You'll build across the stack on AI agent workflows, customer-facing experiences, and integrations with messy legacy ERPs and CRMs. The work includes rapid prototyping with LLMs, debugging complex data flows, and building flexible systems that handle real-world edge cases reliably.

You'll work closely with customers and teammates, contribute to technical decisions and code reviews, and steadily take ownership of more complex parts of the product. Our stack is TypeScript end-to-end with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

What you'll do
  • Build and ship focused product improvements across the frontend and backend
  • Understand requirements, connect implementation choices to customer value, and own work through release and production operation
  • Write clear, maintainable code that follows existing patterns and solves the immediate problem without unnecessary complexity
  • Test important behavior, use logs and metrics to investigate failures, and fix root causes rather than symptoms
  • Debug and improve agent workflows, product experiences, integrations, APIs, data flows, and background jobs
  • Participate thoughtfully in code reviews, incorporate feedback, and grow ownership of increasingly complex product areas


Who you are
  • You have 2+ years of experience as a product software engineer and a track record of shipping working software
  • You can translate scoped requirements into reliable product code and are comfortable working across the stack
  • You care about code quality and simplicity, follow existing patterns, and avoid abstractions that do not serve the immediate problem
  • You test your work, debug systematically, and follow through when production behavior differs from expectations
  • You have a product mindset: you learn how customers work, connect technical decisions to user value, and notice opportunities to improve the experience
  • You communicate clearly, collaborate well, give and receive useful feedback, and learn unfamiliar systems quickly
  • You are ambitious, resourceful, action-oriented, and team-first; you care about strengthening American manufacturing and are excited to work in person five days a week in NYC
Bonus points
  • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, or PostgreSQL
  • Experience with distributed systems, queues, caching, retries, consistency, or observability
  • Experience building third-party API integrations or working with legacy systems
  • Practical experience with LLM APIs, agent workflows, prompting, or evaluations
  • Experience building software for manufacturing or another operationally complex industry


Comp & Benefits
  • Top-tier salary and equity
  • Great healthcare
  • Dinner at the office
  • Unlimited Celsius


Location

Onsite in New York City, five days a week.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Forgepoint Inc

  • Staff Software Engineer
    $150K — $180K *
    New York, NY 10025 (New York County)
    Enterprise Technology
    In-Person
  • Software Engineer
    $110K — $130K *
    New York, NY 10025 (New York County)
    Information Technology
    In-Person
  • Senior Software Engineer
    $150K — $180K *
    New York, NY 10025 (New York County)
    Information Technology
    In-Person
  • Deployment Strategy Lead
    $200K — $240K *
    New York, NY 10025 (New York County)
    Enterprise Technology
    In-Person
  • Agent Engineer
    $175K — $215K *
    New York, NY 10025 (New York County)
    Technical Services
    In-Person

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Software Engineer jobs: