# Senior Software Engineer I, Broker Platform Engineering

**Company:** [Forge](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forge)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $168k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** C#, Java, React, Kafka, Dapr, Redis, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, Git, Jira
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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