Senior Front End Engineer

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.

Our mission is to empower more people to exercise ownership in the world’s leading private companies via a world-class technology platform with access to the largest network of buyers and sellers in the world. 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 440,000 registered users and private shares have traded in more than 500 companies since inception, representing over $12 billion in volume across over 21,000+ 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. You can learn more about Forge in the following video: “The private market future starts now”.

The Role:
We are looking for a teammate who will be a champion for our customers. We are committed to exceeding customer expectations, driving a culture of constant improvement and innovation.
You will be an advocate for client needs through a deep understanding of our business, customer experimentation and data-driven decision making. Stay updated on the latest front-end tools and best practices while ensuring we have a highly performant, responsive, and SEO optimized web presence. Mentorship and cross-organizational thought leadership.   This will be a hybrid role where you'll be onsite 2-3 days a week.   Responsibilities:

• Understand the business domain, architecture, content management and web technology stack and current system operations
• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• HTML and CSS expertise; partnering with UI/UX designers to create pixel perfect renditions swiftly in a highly-maintainable performance manner
• Advanced Content Management System expertise (ProcessWire, WordPress, etc.) and automated CI/CD pipeline and code management systems
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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