Senior Software Engineer

Forma

4d•Remote

About The Position

Forma is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and ship the best possible products accurately and on-time. This role involves solving complex business problems and workflows with highly secure, scalable, and easy-to-use backend APIs and infrastructure. The team utilizes GCP and Kubernetes, and integrates with services like Stripe and Plaid to facilitate financial transactions.

Requirements

2–5 years of professional experience building backend services and APIs.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript/NestJS
Solid experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL - schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
Comfortable with observability tools (logging, metrics, alerting) - we use Datadog, but experience with similar platforms counts.
Experience at a growth-stage startup where you've had to balance speed with quality.
You start with the WHY, and aren’t afraid of asking questions out of curiosity.

Nice To Haves

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, but AWS or Azure experience translates well. Bonus points for experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines.
Fintech, benefits, or HR tech experience is a plus - especially if you've worked with financial transactions, compliance requirements, or third-party integrations (e.g., Stripe, Plaid).

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend services that power Forma's benefits platform — including APIs for account lifecycle, transactions (claims, reimbursements, contributions), and member management.
Work across React/TypeScript/NestJS services, contributing to whichever codebase the work requires.
Build and consume event-driven integrations using Google Pub/Sub, enabling reliable communication between services.
Write well-tested, production-ready code and take ownership of your services in production - including on-call responsibilities, monitoring (Datadog), and incident response.
Collaborate closely with product, ops, customer success teams and engineers across the different teams to deliver features that serve members, customer admins, and internal operations teams.
Contribute to engineering standards, tooling, and processes that help the team ship faster and more reliably.
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.