Senior Software Engineer, Client Experience

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:

We are seeking a talented full‑stack, front‑end‑focused engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and Server‑Side Rendering (SSR) principles to join our growing organization. This role is ideal for an engineer with deep expertise in modern front‑end technologies and a passion for high‑quality delivery.

The right candidate demonstrates a relentless commitment to customer outcomes, leads by example, and thrives in highly collaborative, cross‑functional environments.

Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities:

Champion highly functional, iterative delivery partnerships with Product, Design, and Engineering teams

Build and enhance web applications using React, delivering responsive, accessible, performant, and delightful customer experiences

Evangelize and promote reusable, local component development using Tailwind design tokens to simplify reuse and maintain consistency

Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable, robust software solutions

Partner with domain and data providers to integrate and deliver end‑to‑end solutions iteratively

Leverage headless CMS platforms and low‑code solutions when appropriate

Ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices through code reviews and mentorship

Advocate for the customer through experimentation, data‑driven decision making, and continuous feedback

Stay current with emerging front‑end trends, tools, and best practices to keep the platform modern and competitive

Contribute to and inspire a culture of continuous improvement and innovation

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

8+ years of professional software engineering experienceProven expertise building externally facing, highly available UI experiences using React or similar frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Angular)

Strong experience partnering with UI/UX designers and leveraging design systems, component libraries, charting libraries, and data grids/tables

Demonstrated track record of collaboration, rapid delivery, and actively supporting teammates through technical challenges

Deep experience with build optimization and bundling tools

Solid knowledge of event‑driven architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, and related web communication protocols

Strong command of front‑end architecture patterns, best practices, and methodologies for large‑scale, customer‑facing applications

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)

Experience building applications using a Backend‑for‑Frontend (BFF) architecture and/or serverless (Lambda) functions

Familiarity with Cloudflare as a CDN and caching layer

Experience programming in C# and .NET

Working knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud infrastructure

Background in FinTech, Financial Services, or other highly regulated industries

Experience working in high‑growth, venture‑backed startups, including scaling organizations post‑IPO

For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $168,000-$215,000 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.