Senior Backend Engineer – Customer Domain & Fintech APIs

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Forge seeks a Software Engineer to support CADS and Schwab integration, expanding onboarding of customer/account domains in a highly integrated financial system. This role requires collaboration across Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations to deliver durable backend solutions.

The position emphasizes building scalable APIs, managing account data, and ensuring system reliability from San Francisco offices two to three days per week. Strong communication is essential.

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.

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.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Relational databases

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Okta

Job description

Forge seeks a Software Engineer to support CADS and Schwab integration, expanding onboarding of customer/account domains in a highly integrated financial system. This role requires collaboration across Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations to deliver durable backend solutions.

The position emphasizes building scalable APIs, managing account data, and ensuring system reliability from San Francisco offices two to three days per week. Strong communication is essential.