Senior Software Engineer I, Broker Platform Engineering

forgeglobal; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Forge is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Broker Platform to deliver high‑quality experiences to our Brokers. You will work with modern, low‑latency technologies and implement software best practices to advance our trading and broker operations platform, collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to raise user experience and performance.

This hybrid role is onsite 2–3 days a week in our SF office.

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 language on the back-end and React/Typescript on the front-end.
• Experience in the Financial Services space, specifically on a customer-facing product.
• Proven expertise in CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and code quality.
• Knowledge of real-time data processing and event-driven architectures using Kafka and DAPR.
• Experience designing distributed caching strategies using Redis.
• Proficient in PostgreSQL or RDS, SQL queries, and cloud platforms like AWS; familiar with Git, GitHub, and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Deliver software on-time with accurate estimates.
• Own changes from development through production with monitoring.
• Integrate internal and external APIs ensuring data accuracy across distributed systems.
• Provide code review feedback to prevent production issues and coach teammates.
• Collaborate with product to understand requirements and translate them into actionable tasks.
• Work with cross-functional teams to design solutions that meet business needs.
• Support healthy system operations and high availability.

Skills

Backend-First

Full-Stack

React/Typescript

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Real-time processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

DAPR

Redis

PostgreSQL

RDS

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

GitHub

Jira

Job description

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge's goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre‑IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.

Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

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

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.