Staff Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Enterprise Platform

Forma.ai; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option plan

Healthcare coverage

$750 training stipend

Job summary

Forma.ai is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the TQM team, shaping the Territory and Quota Management planning layer of our platform. You will design enterprise features, balance product and technical judgements, and guide delivery across frontend and backend systems used by large sales organizations.

You will lead core architecture decisions, collaborate with customers and teams, and stay hands-on to ensure production-grade outcomes in an AI-enabled development environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and running production systems, including leading the design of a product area or platform.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or a similar language, and comfort working across the stack, including a TypeScript and React frontend.
• Strong SQL, relational schema design, and data modelling skills, including data models that had to change over many years.
• A track record of good technical judgement. You can describe major decisions, what you rejected, and how they held up.
• A track record of good product judgement. You have shaped what was built, and you can explain how you weighed customer value, cost, and risk.
• Experience talking with customers or customer-facing teams and turning what you learn into product decisions.
• Regular and critical use of AI coding tools, and a clear view on how a team should work with them.
• Clear, precise writing. You do not expect others to read AI output. Your audience will put in as much effort reading your docs as you do writing them.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of TQM’s enterprise features, including permissions, audit history, and approval workflows.
• Care about the product experience, working on both frontend and backend towards the goal of delivering strong experiences.
• Design these features so that new product areas can use them without rebuilding them.
• Learn from customers how planning is governed inside their organizations and turn that into a clear plan for delivery.
• Decide what not to build. Cut scope that doesn’t serve a customer, and say so clearly.
• Set the technical direction for how these features connect to the rest of the Forma.ai platform.
• Write the design documents and decision records that the team builds from, and review others’ with a high bar.
• Stay hands-on. Build the hardest parts yourself and make sure the result works in production.
• Contribute heavily to product ideation discussions, and bring opinions.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

TypeScript

React

SQL

Data modeling

Product judgment

Customer collaboration

AI coding tools

Writing

Tools

PostgreSQL

Spring Boot

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTofu

TanStack Router

React tooling

Job description

Forma.ai is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the TQM team, shaping the Territory and Quota Management planning layer of our platform. You will design enterprise features, balance product and technical judgements, and guide delivery across frontend and backend systems used by large sales organizations.

You will lead core architecture decisions, collaborate with customers and teams, and stay hands-on to ensure production-grade outcomes in an AI-enabled development environment.