Jobs at Forward Financing

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Forward Financing’s core fintech platform. Design scalable distributed backend systems, guide cross-team initiatives, establish engineering best practices, resolve incidents, and mentor engineers. The role owns the technical roadmap and architectural vision while partnering across teams to improve reliability, observability, code quality, and delivery. Ruby on Rails expertise is required, along with strong communication, influence, agile development experience, and a broad backend or full-stack perspective.

The GRC Analyst manages third-party risk assessments, vendor due diligence, security policies, risk analysis, internal audits, and SOC 2 audit support. The role involves maintaining the GRC program, tracking findings, coordinating stakeholders, promoting security awareness, and using AI and machine learning to automate compliance processes. Candidates should have 1–2+ years of relevant experience, strong communication skills, and familiarity with risk methodologies, vendor assessments, policies, and compliance audits.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Lead the design and execution of global total rewards programs, including compensation bands, benefits strategy, equity and incentive plans, job leveling, pay equity, and annual compensation cycles. Advise executives, HR business partners, and talent acquisition using market data, financial modeling, and internal equity analysis. Optimize total rewards systems and programs across a growing global organization.

Architects and develops AI-powered systems, tools, agents, backend services, APIs, and experimentation frameworks using foundational AI models. Integrates AI capabilities with microservices, AWS, Snowflake, and complex data systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Translates business problems into technical solutions, prototypes AI applications, collaborates with product and engineering teams, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and documents system designs and integration patterns.

Conduct manual penetration tests and secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, AWS infrastructure, and AI systems. Develop AI-assisted security tooling, test LLM applications and agents, triage SAST findings, tune detection rules, support security reviews before production, and communicate risks and remediation priorities to engineering teams.

Drive high-volume outbound re-engagement of paid-in-full merchants to generate new funding opportunities. Use CRM (Salesforce) and auto-dialer tools, analyze performance metrics, mentor junior reps, collaborate with cross-functional teams, pilot beta technologies, and meet strict activity, conversion, and quota targets.

Manage a portfolio of small and medium business customers to grow relationships and identify additional capital solutions. Analyze business and financial histories, own the sales process from approval to close, use data to prioritize opportunities, and meet monthly quota in a fast-paced environment.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

Manage security operations and lead a security engineering team defending endpoints, SaaS, infrastructure, and corporate systems. Serve as senior Incident Commander, oversee detection and response using CrowdStrike, conduct cybersecurity risk assessments, and improve vulnerability, patch, access, and configuration management. Build detection coverage across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud signals while partnering with AppSec and technical leaders. Lead the company’s AI security strategy and develop specialized security capabilities.

Lead sales analytics and reporting to drive revenue and efficiency. Build Tableau and Salesforce dashboards, analyze pipeline health, perform ad-hoc and pilot analyses, partner with sales leadership and cross-functional teams, administer compensation and CRM updates, and evaluate/implement AI-driven sales tools to optimize performance.