Senior Software Engineer II

Forma•, CA

3d•Remote

About The Position

Join our Product Experience (PX) team and help build the systems behind Forma's member and admin experience - the member portal, admin portal, mobile app, and the integrations that power them. You'll work across the stack to deliver intuitive, secure, and scalable experiences that members and customer admins rely on every day. This role is fullstack-preferred, but we're also open to strong backend engineers who are eager to grow into fullstack work.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience building and shipping software, with a track record of leading projects from scoping through delivery.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript (Node.js), or a willingness to learn quickly
Frontend experience with React and TypeScript (strongly preferred).
Solid experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL — schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
Experience integrating third-party APIs and managing the complexity of external service dependencies.
Experience working in teams in a remote, distributed environment.
Experience at a growth-stage startup where you've balanced speed with quality.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with MUI, Tailwind, or component-driven UI development is a plus.
Experience with event-driven architectures or messaging systems (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, SQS/SNS) is a strong plus.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure translates well) and modern deployment practices. Bonus points for Kubernetes, Terraform, or CI/CD pipeline experience.
Fintech, benefits, or HR tech experience is a plus — especially with financial transactions, compliance requirements, or third-party integrations.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of complex features end-to-end — from scoping and technical design through implementation, testing, and rollout.
Build full features across the stack: backend APIs (NestJS/TypeScript) and frontend interfaces (React, TypeScript) that members and customer admins use directly.
Contribute to Forma's web applications (member portal, admin portal) and, where relevant, our React Native mobile app.
Build and orchestrate integrations with third-party services for bank linking, investments, email/sms notifications, tax reporting, etc. — handling webhooks, retries, and failure modes gracefully.
Contribute to architectural discussions across the PX team and broader engineering org.
Take ownership of your services in production — including on-call responsibilities, monitoring (Datadog), and incident response.
Mentor and support other engineers through code review, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Use AI tools thoughtfully as part of your workflow — we encourage engineers to leverage AI assistants to accelerate development, improve code quality, and explore solutions faster, while maintaining strong judgment and ownership of the work they ship.