Full Stack Staff Engineer

Forma.ai; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic startup in sales technology, located in Toronto, is seeking an experienced Full Stack Staff Engineer to revolutionize sales compensation management. In this influential role, you will lead product development, collaborating with design and product teams to create impactful solutions. We require a strong background in modern UI and backend development, with at least 10 years of experience. Join us in an inclusive environment that fosters growth, innovation, and teamwork.

Benefits

Meaningful compensation through stock ownership

Full benefits package including healthcare

Yearly training stipend of $750

Opportunity for career growth

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in product development with emphasis on customer-centric design.
• Experience in handling ambiguity with pragmatic decision-making.
• Solid experience in building resilient and observable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Influential role in product development, collaborating with design and product teams.
• Responsible for solution design, technical architecture, and rapid prototyping.
• Continuously improve through testing and code review.

Skills

Product ownership skills

Customer empathy

Modern UI development with React/Typescript

Backend solutions design

Collaborative engineering

Strong communication

Architectural design excellence

Tools

AWS

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big!

About the team: Engineers on this team are holistic problem solvers comfortable working across the entire stack. We build beautiful interfaces that focus on customer delight and take pride in crafting reliable services responsible for million-dollar commission runs. We are excited about taking complex problems with a web of constraints/dependencies to deliver simple, elegant solutions. We are learners and listeners who code with customer empathy in mind.

Forma.ai is revolutionizing the Sales Performance Management space with our own platform that transforms your sales compensation process from end to end to design, optimize and manage sales incentive programs. The Engineering team is responsible for building a scalable, extensible, and resilient product that realizes that vision.

What you'll be doing

The Full Stack Staff Engineer will play an influential role in product development. Supported by our Product and Design teams, you will construct new products and maintain existing features. We value rapid prototyping and imaginative solution design. You will dive deep to understand our problem space (sales compensation) and use that to inform your decisions around technical requirements and architecture.

We are building out new product modules at a rapid pace. You will be responsible for solution design, technical architecture, estimation, iterative development, testing, observability, and code review. Rapid peer review and thoughtful automated testing will be big parts of your day to day. Be prepared to continuously grow and improve both personally and professionally in our hypergrowth culture.

What we're looking for

• A history of product ownership skills and customer empathy to make an organization-level impact
• 10+ years experience handling ambiguity, surfacing trade-offs, and making pragmatic decisions while suggesting and implementing changes to process
• Strong technical background of modern UI development, preferably with React/Typescript
• Prior experience designing and building complex backend solutions. We use Python, but the language is less important than the skillset.
• Solid experience building many resilient, extensible, observable solutions in a highly collaborative engineering environment
• Strong communicator able to represent the team in front of product, operations, and executive stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate architectural design excellence
• Tackle poorly defined problems and provide alignment and technical direction in those problem spaces

Technologies we use

• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions

Additional Job Info

• This position is for an existing vacancy

What you can expect from us

• Meaningful compensation. In addition to your base salary, you’ll join our employee stock ownership plan to further recognize your contributions to Forma.ai’s success
• Healthcare coverage. We have a full benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, and a paid parental leave program
• Learning and development. Access the resources you want to help you grow in your role by utilizing our $750 yearly training stipend
• Growth. You’ll have a huge opportunity to build a career for yourself and gain the type of experience you’re looking for – whether that’s as an individual contributor or as a people leader

Our Values

• Work well, together. We’re real. We have kids and pets. Mortgages and student loans. We’re in this together, so no matter how brilliant any one of us is, we always play nice with one another – no exceptions.
• Be precise. Be relentless. We believe complacency breeds failure, so we set new goals as quickly as we achieve them. We persist in the face of adversity, learn from our mistakes, and push each other to continuously improve. The status-quo is kryptonite.
• Love our tech. Love our customers. Our platform solves a very complex problem in a currently underserved market. While everyone at Forma isn’t customer-facing, we’re all customer-focused. Maybe even slightly customer-obsessed.

Use of AI for Recruitment

Forma.ai does not use artificial intelligence as part of our recruitment process, specifically but not limited to the screening, filtering and shortlisting of applicants.

Our commitment to you

Forma is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially. We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of effort. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description. There are many paths to a successful career and we’re looking forward to reading yours.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however only qualified applicants will be shortlisted.