Senior Software Engineer II, Customer Domain & Marketplace Middleware Engineering

Forge Global; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Forge Global, headquartered in San Francisco, is hiring software engineers to build scalable web applications that power private market liquidity. You will work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, mentor peers, and contribute to product and platform improvements.

This hybrid role requires at least 4 years of experience, strong C#/.NET API skills, SQL, and the ability to integrate AI into daily workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience on a product team.
• Experience building APIs with C# and .NET.
• Experience integrating AI into daily workflows and code reviews.
• Experience with SQL / Relational Databases.
• Proven track record of teamwork and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain web applications with customer domain and marketplace middleware specific business logic.
• Collaborate with Tech Lead, Engineers, Product Manager, and Program Manager to deliver customer and business value.
• Develop concise, articulate, and detailed technical documentation.
• Leverage Agile and Lean practices.
• Partner with product on understanding requirements and backlog tasks.
• Build and maintain automated tests (unit and integration).
• Support healthy system operations and ensure high availability.

Skills

C# / .NET

APIs

SQL

AI integration

Team collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Agile

Documentation

Product collaboration

Unit tests

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Event Store DB

CI/CD pipelines

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:

Forge’s software engineering team is passionate about innovation and building scalable solutions that drive liquidity and growth in the private market. Our teams are leveraging a broad range of new technologies and are well-versed in delivering high quality, innovative solutions. We thrive on moving fast, delivering value, and living our values of being bold, humble, and accountable.

We are seeking passionate engineers with at least 4 years of experience delivering innovative software solutions that are scalable, secure, and easy to maintain. The ideal candidate thrives in team settings, enjoys collaboration and mentoring engineers, and focuses on delivering value and making an impact.

Location:

This is a hybrid role where you'll be onsite 2-3 days a week in one of our locations: NYC or SF.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain web applications with customer domain and marketplace middleware specific business logic
• Communicate with team members. Work with Tech Lead, Engineers, Product Manager, and Program Manager to arrive at solutions that produce customer and business value.
• Develop concise, articulate, and detailed technical documentation
• Leverage Agile and Lean practices
• Partner with product on understanding requirements, review technical requirements, and take/implement actionable tasks from the team’s board/backlog
• Build and maintain automated tests (unit and integration), ensuring high code quality
• Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience in the field
• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience as a software engineer for a product engineering team
• Experience building APIs with C# and .NET
• Experience integrating AI into daily routine (crafting prompts, reviewing code, advice)
• Experience with SQL / Relational Databases
• Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, or similar approaches
• Experience developing event-driven systems leveraging Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
• Fintech or Financial services industry experience with working knowledge of financial regulators and their concerns
• Experience with KYC (Know Your Customer) workflows
• Experience with multiple server-side programming languages
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) or Domain Driven Development
• Experience with an Event Store DBExperience with CI/CD pipelines and managing application deployments
• Experience with scaling systems to millions of users
  • Working knowledge of the private market

For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $169,000-$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.

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