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ForgeForgeNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer I, Broker Platform Engineering

Senior Software Engineer building the Broker Platform at Forge, delivering high-quality, low-latency trading and broker operations experiences. Backend-first full-stack role focused on real-time data, distributed systems, and financial services products.

168k – 200k
Hybrid5+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Deliver software on-time with accurate estimates
  • Take ownership of changes to ensure they run in production with appropriate monitoring
  • Integrate internal and external APIs, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across distributed systems
  • Provide quality code review feedback to prevent production issues and help other team members grow
  • Partner with product on understanding requirements, review technical requirements, and take/implement actionable tasks from the team’s board/backlog
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and design solutions implementing them
  • Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience
  • Backend-first Full-Stack engineering experience in C#, Java, or an equivalent compiled object-oriented programming language on the back-end and React on the front-end
  • Experience working in the Financial Services space specifically on a customer facing product
  • Proven expertise in working with CI/CD pipelines, managing application deployments, and ensuring code quality
  • Knowledge of real-time data processing and event-driven architectures using technologies like Kafka and DAPR
  • Experience designing and managing distributed caching strategies using Redis
  • Proficient in Databases like PostgreSQL or RDS, SQL queries, and experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar (Azure, GCP, etc)
  • Familiarity with version control systems like Git and platforms like GitHub and Agile project management tools such as JIRA

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience as a software engineer for a product engineering team
  • Experience with deploying and scaling containerized microservices using Kubernetes in production environments
  • Experience using large language models and agentic workflows
  • Experience with Event Sourcing and frameworks such as Marten

Skills

C#JavaReactKafkaDaprRedisPostgresAWSKubernetesGitJira

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