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:
As our Senior Data Engineer focusing on data engineering, you will play a crucial role delivering a high-quality data platform that is responsible for maintaining and delivering Forge data to internal and external clients as well as improving and maintaining internal user interfaces to interact with this data. You will implement new features, maintain existing features and perform code reviews, unit testing, and production deployments for our data platform using agile methodologies. Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, you’ll ensure requirements are well defined, and changes are delivered in a timely manner.
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in Soho, NY.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions
- Implement software solutions in line with given estimates
- Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in data engineering and advocate for their appropriate adoption
Qualifications:
- 3–5+ years of experience in development using object-oriented languages like TypeScript, C#, and Java
- Experience in other scripting languages like Python for data tasks
- Experience with front-end toolkits like React and TailwindCSS
- Familiarity with modern data architectures (e.g., Medallion, data lakes, etc.)
- Experience working in Private Markets or Financial Services, specifically with financial markets data
- Proven expertise in setting up CI/CD pipelines, data orchestration, managing application deployments, and ensuring code quality
- Strong project management skills, taking changes from planning to deployment, with hands-on coding in both backend and frontend
- Proficient in databases like PostgreSQL and SQL queries, and experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar (e.g., Azure, GCP)
- Extensive experience with version control systems like Git and platforms like GitHub
- Familiarity with Agile project management tools such as JIRA or similar
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in migrating systems from legacy architectures to modern tech stacks
- Knowledge of real-time data processing and event-driven architectures using technologies like WebSockets or Kafka
- Experience in leading offshore and nearshore teams
- Experience using large language models and agentic workflows
For residents of NY, NY the annual salary range for this role is $200,000-$230,000 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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