Staff Software Engineer

What Forward Financing offers

Forward Financing is a mission‑driven lender delivering rapid, flexible funding to small businesses that traditional lenders often overlook. This role supports a culture of impact, collaboration, and practical engineering that directly advances customer success.

• Mission driven work that helps small businesses access the funding they need to grow.
• Flexible work arrangement with the option to work from home, in the office, or a hybrid setup, plus flexible hours.

Responsibilities

• Architectural influence across cross‑functional systems, shaping designs and implementations that align multiple engineering teams and languages.
• Technical leadership to set direction, elevate code quality, promote sound design patterns, and drive operational excellence in frontend architecture.
• Cross‑team collaboration to lead complex initiatives, maintain active engagement, and address technical debt and challenges.
• Mentorship and elevation of the engineering team through technical guidance, sponsorship, and role modeling best practices for junior engineers.
• Proactive problem solving to reduce technical debt and resolve incidents and bugs efficiently.

Requirements

• Typically 8+ years of experience in technical leadership, mentorship, and sponsorship.
• Deep expertise designing and implementing frontend systems and scalable architectures across multiple applications or languages.
• Strong ability to influence others and drive consensus.
• Full‑stack perspective or frontend architecture experience with awareness of how backend services affect the user experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Several years of experience in agile software development.

Desired technical skills

• Modern React and TypeScript at scale, with extensive production experience in long‑lived codebases.
• State and data architecture expertise, including server‑state and client‑state patterns and their placement.
• Design system stewardship, owning or shaping a shared component library with primitive foundations and Storybook‑driven development.
• Design partnership and craft, fluently reading Figma files and collaborating on thoughtful loading, empty, and error states.
• Accessibility as a baseline, with WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, keyboard/focus management, and ARIA semantics.
• Full‑stack capability, capable of API contract design with backend partners and understanding how data shape, latency, and auth influence UX.
• Performance and observability focus, tuning real‑user performance using Web Vitals, bundle analysis, and RUM (Datadog or equivalent).

Technologies

• React
• TypeScript
• Storybook
• Figma
• Datadog

Compensation

• Annual Targeted Salary: $170,000 - $200,000 USD
• Annual Target Bonus: 12%
• Compensation Range: $170K - $200K

Final offers are determined by a variety of factors, including qualifications, relevant experience, specific skills, and internal equity. Recruiters will provide detailed information on the expected base and variable earnings for this role.