Senior Software Engineer II of Trading

The Role: 

As a Senior Software Engineer II focusing on trading engineering you will play a critical role in delivering a high-quality trading platform that powers trading functionality in the Forge Marketplace. You will identify opportunities to enhance trading products including integrating modern low-latency technologies and help define the direction and roadmap for trading engineering initiatives.

You will collaborate closely with Product Design and Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of trading technologies into products improving both user experience and application performance.

Location: This position is remote in Denver CO. We intend to open an office in Denver and once we do we will require hybrid attendance onsite at least 9 days each month.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver software on time with accurate estimates
• Take ownership of production changes including monitoring and maintaining runbooks
• Provide high-quality code reviews and help improve team engineering standards
• Design scalable and resilient trading platform architecture with a focus on performance
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to technical direction
• Serve as a technical expert for trading systems for internal teams and external partners
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Solve complex engineering challenges particularly within code generation frameworks

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5–8 years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of development experience in compiled object-oriented languages (e.g. TypeScript C# Java)
• 2+ years of experience in dynamic scripting languages (e.g. Python JavaScript Ruby)
• Experience with real-time data processing and event-driven systems (e.g. WebSockets Kafka)
• Strong SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and managing production deployments
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) proficiency with Git GitHub and Agile tools such as JIRA
• Experience in Private Markets or Financial Services especially financial market data
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills proven ability to unblock and mentor other engineers
• Strong track record of delivery in high-performance engineering environments commitment to diversity inclusion and building high-performing teams

For residents of Denver CO the annual salary range for this role is $157000-$190000+ annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography candidate experience and expertise bonus and other factors

What We Do

At Forge (NYSE: FRGE) 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 humble and accountable. 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 planet-saving plant-based nutrition 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 it is building a growing network effect with defensible competitive advantages. The Forge marketplace has over 440000 registered users and private shares have traded in more than 500 companies since inception representing over $12 billion in volume across over 21000+ transactions. 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.

Why Work With Us

At Forge we offer extensive opportunities for growth to provide employees with endless possibilities developing careers through unique experiences. The diversity of skills experience and thought is what drives innovation within our walls.

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