Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Forma as a Staff Software Engineer and take on high-level strategic responsibilities with hands-on technical tasks, influencing your engineering team by making key architectural decisions and setting technical standards that align with our business goals.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend software development experience
• Proven success building scalable systems in the money movement/payment processing space
• Familiar with NodeJS / Typescript and building APIs
• Familiar with NoSql and / or relational databases
• Familiar with TypeScript / JavaScript or similar languages
• Familiar with agile methodologies, and have led a project from end-to-end

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership by improving engineering quality, processes and standards to drive product quality both for your team and for the engineering org as a whole
• Ensure that banking and money movement is done in a compliant, resilient, automated and observable fashion
• Collaborate with Product and Design team members to drive alignment on strategic product decisions that define feature roadmap
• Mentor Engineering team members to promote a culture of technical excellence and innovation
• Release new product features and maintain existing services
• Have a deep understanding about product values and contribute collectively to create the best product experience
• Build secure, performant, and easy-to-use backend APIs and database designs with clear documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at an early-stage startup is a plus
• Fintech experience a plus

Benefits

• Remote-first working environment
• Medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• Employee wellness program
• Home Productivity program
• Team building program
• 401(k) savings plan
• Flexible PTO policy
• 12 weeks Parental Leave + 4 additional weeks for the Birthing Parent