Senior Software Engineer, Forma
A modern-day benefits platform
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A modern-day benefits platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give every employee the ability to integrate work and life seamlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 2–5 years of professional experience building backend services and APIs
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/NestJS
- Solid experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL - schema design, query optimization, and migrations
- Experience with event-driven architectures or messaging systems (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, SQS/SNS) is a strong plus
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure - GCP preferred, but AWS or Azure experience translates well. Bonus points for experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable with observability tools (logging, metrics, alerting) - we use Datadog, but experience with similar platforms counts
- Experience at a growth-stage startup where you've had to balance speed with quality
- You start with the WHY, and aren’t afraid of asking questions out of curiosity
- Fintech, benefits, or HR tech experience is a plus - especially if you've worked with financial transactions, compliance requirements, or third-party integrations (e.g., Stripe, Plaid)
What the job involves
- Build and ship the best possible products accurately and on-time
- Solve complex business problems and workflows with highly secure, scalable, and easy-to-use backend APIs and infrastructure
- We run our services on GCP and Kubernetes
- We integrate with Stripe, Plaid, and others to make complicated financial transactions a breeze
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power Forma's benefits platform — including APIs for account lifecycle, transactions (claims, reimbursements, contributions), and member management
- Work across React/TypeScript/NestJS services, contributing to whichever codebase the work requires
- Build and consume event-driven integrations using Google Pub/Sub, enabling reliable communication between services
- Write well-tested, production-ready code and take ownership of your services in production - including on-call responsibilities, monitoring (Datadog), and incident response
- Collaborate closely with product, ops, customer success teams and engineers across the different teams to deliver features that serve members, customer admins, and internal operations teams
- Contribute to engineering standards, tooling, and processes that help the team ship faster and more reliably
- Use AI tools thoughtfully as part of your workflow - we encourage engineers to leverage AI assistants to accelerate development, improve code quality, and explore solutions faster, while maintaining strong judgment and ownership of the work they ship
Our take
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 business’s 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 is well-placed to cater to an adaptive, demanding new benefits landscape.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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