Staff Front End Engineer

• Understand the business domain, architecture, content management and web technology stack and current system operations.  Maintain, improve and mentor.
• Build, maintain and improve Forge marketing public experiences, integrating with data providers both internal and external
• Hands on technical design, architecture, coding, and overall team delivery, while influencing and owning technical decisions for front-end application design and domain integration
• Act as a technical lead and mentor for a distributed team, ensuring code quality, maintainability and best practices through code reviews and mentorship, with a focus on front-end design and techniques
• Develop concise, articulate, and detailed documentation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and translate requirements into scalable, robust software solutions, acting as a consultant on front-end applications and championing highly functional iterative delivery partnerships with Product, Design, and other engineering teams
• Investigate and recommend guidelines for use of internal and external frameworks and new technologies, as/when they align to business needs

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced Content Management System expertise (ProcessWire, WordPress, etc.) and automated CI/CD pipeline and code management systems
• Experience partnering with UI/UX designers and creating pixel perfect renditions swiftly in HTML and CSS in a highly-maintainable performance manner
• Knowledge of Event Driven Architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSocket, and other web communication protocols
• Deep knowledge of patterns, antipatterns, best practices, and methodologies for building large scale Customer-facing solutions, including build optimization and bundling tools

• Experience programming in C# and .NET technologies
• Knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure
• FinTech or Financial Services industry experience or other highly regulated related field
• Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups and scaling them post-IPO

For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary range for this role is $215,000 - $225,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, annual bonus, and other factors.

Forge implements a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which applies to all employees. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Forge. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. Employees must provide truthful and accurate information about their COVID-19 vaccination status, and, if applicable, their testing results as of the first date of their employment. 

Employees may request an exception from this mandatory vaccination policy if the vaccine is medically contraindicated for them or medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. Employees also may be legally entitled to a reasonable accommodation if they cannot be vaccinated because of a disability, or if the provisions in this policy for vaccination conflict with a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. All such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.