Forge

CA, US

Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

$120,000-$215,000 / YEAR

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain data-driven web applications.
  • Work with Architects, Tech Leads, and Stakeholders to arrive at solutions that drive business value.
  • Mentor members of the development team on internal and external frameworks, software development best practices, and new technologies, while emphasizing outcomes over specific technologies.
  • Gain an understanding of business requirements, current system operations/functionality and proposed new requirements.
  • Collaborate with Forge’s product, design, information security and business team members to quickly grasp domain knowledge.
  • Design, build and maintain automated unit and integration tests.
  • Develop concise, articulate and detailed documentation
  • Present engineering proposals, concepts, wins and outcomes to a variety of audiences including internal engineering groups, cross-functional teams and other organizations within Forge.
  • Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience (8+ for staff engs).
  • Experience developing, building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and operating, multi-tier web applications using modern techniques.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and help drive innovation.
  • Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time in an office setting while working.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fintech or Financial services industry experience
  • Advanced knowledge of Functional Programming
  • Experience mentoring junior software engineers
  • Proven track-record of teamwork and delivery
  • Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups
  • Working knowledge of the private market, financial regulators and their concerns
  • Experience developing with Ruby on Rails strongly preferred
  • Experience developing React/Typescript/JavaScript strongly preferred
  • Experience with Event-Driven architectures, DDD and/or CQRS a big plus