Senior Platform Engineering Lead - Backend & AI

Forma; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work environment

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Employee wellness program

Home office stipend

401(k) savings plan

Flexible PTO

12 weeks Parental Leave + 4 weeks for

Job summary

Forma is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the backend platform team powering our benefits platform. You will own reliability, scalability, and performance across services, shape architecture and API design, and drive end-to-end operational excellence.

You’ll collaborate with security, product, and other engineering teams to maintain velocity while ensuring safety and governance around AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years directly managing software engineers, including platform/backend teams.
• 10+ years developing backend software with distributed systems and APIs.
• Proven track record building and scaling large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience owning platform reliability — SLAs/SLOs, incident management, observability.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for backend platform services with a focus on scalability and security.
• Define execution plan with quarterly OKRs; ensure delivery across teams.
• Champion engineering excellence in design, code quality, testing, and operation readiness.
• Partner with other engineering teams to define APIs and shared services.
• Manage and grow a team of backend engineers; provide feedback and coaching.
• Own operational model for platform reliability: uptime, incidents, on-call, postmortems.

Skills

People management

Backend systems

Distributed systems

APIs

Architecture

Platform reliability

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring & coaching

Fintech domain

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Forma is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the backend platform team powering our benefits platform. You will own reliability, scalability, and performance across services, shape architecture and API design, and drive end-to-end operational excellence.

You’ll collaborate with security, product, and other engineering teams to maintain velocity while ensuring safety and governance around AI-assisted development.