At Forge, 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, accountable, and humble. 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 artificial intelligence, 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 is building a growing network effect.
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.
The Role:
We are seeking a talented full‑stack, front‑end‑focused engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and Server‑Side Rendering (SSR) principles to join our growing organization. This role is ideal for an engineer with deep expertise in modern front‑end technologies and a passion for high‑quality delivery.
The right candidate demonstrates a relentless commitment to customer outcomes, leads by example, and thrives in highly collaborative, cross‑functional environments.
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in Soho, NY.
Responsibilities:
- Champion highly functional, iterative delivery partnerships with Product, Design, and Engineering teams
- Build and enhance web applications using React, delivering responsive, accessible, performant, and delightful customer experiences
- Evangelize and promote reusable, local component development using Tailwind design tokens to simplify reuse and maintain consistency
- Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable, robust software solutions
- Partner with domain and data providers to integrate and deliver end‑to‑end solutions iteratively
- Leverage headless CMS platforms and low‑code solutions when appropriate
- Ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices through code reviews and mentorship
- Advocate for the customer through experimentation, data‑driven decision making, and continuous feedback
- Stay current with emerging front‑end trends, tools, and best practices to keep the platform modern and competitive
- Contribute to and inspire a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experienceProven expertise building externally facing, highly available UI experiences using React or similar frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Angular)
- Strong experience partnering with UI/UX designers and leveraging design systems, component libraries, charting libraries, and data grids/tables
- Demonstrated track record of collaboration, rapid delivery, and actively supporting teammates through technical challenges
- Deep experience with build optimization and bundling tools
- Solid knowledge of event‑driven architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, and related web communication protocols
- Strong command of front‑end architecture patterns, best practices, and methodologies for large‑scale, customer‑facing applications
Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience building applications using a Backend‑for‑Frontend (BFF) architecture and/or serverless (Lambda) functions
- Familiarity with Cloudflare as a CDN and caching layer
- Experience programming in C# and .NET
- Working knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud infrastructure
- Background in FinTech, Financial Services, or other highly regulated industries
- Experience working in high‑growth, venture‑backed startups, including scaling organizations post‑IPO
For residents of New York, New York the annual salary range for this role is $168,000-$215,000+ annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors
Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.
Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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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 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.
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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