Senior Software Engineer I, Broker Platform Engineering

Posted 7/8/2026 · last confirmed live 8/26/2026

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:      As a Senior Software Engineer on the Broker Platform team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality experiences to our Brokers, working with modern, low-latency  technologies  and implementing software best practices to incrementally advance our trading and broker operations platform. Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering,  you'll  drive seamless integration of data technologies into our products, setting new standards for user experience and application performance   Location:   This is a hybrid role where  you'll be onsite 2-3 days a week in our Soho, NY office.   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 system   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   Qualifications:     5-8 years of software engineering experience with a  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience in the field     Backend -first Full-Stack  engineering experience in C#, Java, or an equivalent  compiled  object - oriented programming language  on the  back-end and React / Typescript 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-drive 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   For residents of New York, New York the annual base salary range for this role is $168,000-$200,000 + 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 as well as fingerprint and drug test.  Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.  

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