Staff Software Engineer, Forma
A modern-day benefits platform
Open for applications
A modern-day benefits platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give every employee the ability to integrate work and life seamlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of backend software development experience
- Proven success working with NodeJS / Typescript and building APIs
- Familiar with NoSql and / or relational databases
- Familiar with TypeScript / JavaScript or similar languages
- Familiar with agile methodologies, and have led a project from end-to-end
- Experience at an early-stage startup is a plus
- Fintech experience a plus
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Forma, you will take on a role that blends high-level strategic responsibilities with hands-on technical tasks
- You will influence your engineering team by making key architectural decisions and setting technical standards that align with our business goals and result in meaningful, tangible business outcomes
- As a founding Staff Software Engineer at Forma, you’ll be expected to foster a cohesive technical strategy across multiple teams and projects
- Provide technical leadership by improving engineering quality, processes and standards to in order to drive product quality both for your team and for the engineering org as a whole
- Collaborate with Product and Design team members to drive alignment on strategic product decisions that define feature roadmap
- Mentor Engineering team members to promote a culture of technical excellence and innovation
- Release new product features and maintain existing services
- Have a deep understanding about product values and contribute collectively to create the best product experience
- Build secure, performant, and easy-to-use backend APIs and database designs with clear documentation
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Forma is looking to reimagine the employee benefits model. The company helps HR departments select the right benefits, and by leveraging its vendor network, also offer these at a more affordable cost. Forma then also helps employees make smarter, more transparent decisions regarding their health and wellness work benefits.
With generations X and Z dominating the workforce, benefits expectations are rapidly changing. Add to that the upheaval of employee expectations precipitated by the switch to hybrid workforces, and many HR departments have struggled to keep pace with the rate of change. Unused benefits, and enquiries from under-informed employees, eat up both time and resources that undermine the efficiency and credibility of a businesses’ benefits program. Therefore, Forma's solution to this should be appealing for employers and employees alike.
Testament to the efficacy of its model, Forma was only founded in 2017 as Twic, and already boasts the likes of Zoom, Stripe, and DataDog among its customers. With the nature of modern workforces still in flux, Forma look well-placed to be catering to an adaptive, demanding new benefits landscape.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Remote Friendly
- Health Care
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Leave
- Lifestyle Stipend
- Team Building Stipend
- Productivity Stipend
- Career Opportunities
Company values
- We never Settle
- We raise each other's bars
- We've got you
- We own our work
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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