Hiring Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack @ Formaaiinc

About Forma.ai:

Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk.

Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy.

We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big!

About the team:

Engineers on this team are holistic problem solvers comfortable working across the entire stack. We build beautiful interfaces that focus on customer delight and take pride in crafting reliable services responsible for million-dollar commission runs. We are excited about taking complex problems with a web of constraints/dependencies to deliver simple, elegant solutions. We are learners and listeners who code with customer empathy in mind.

Forma.ai is revolutionizing the Sales Performance Management space with our own platform that transforms your sales compensation process from end to end to design, optimize and manage sales incentive programs. The Engineering team is responsible for building a scalable, extensible, and resilient product that realizes that vision.

What you'll be doing:

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack will play an influential role in product development. Supported by our Product and Design teams, you will build new products and maintain existing features. We value rapid prototyping and imaginative solution design. You will develop a deep understanding of our problem space (sales compensation) to inform your decisions around technical requirements and architecture.

We are building out new product modules at a rapid pace. You will be responsible for solution design, technical architecture, estimation, iterative development, testing, observability, and code review. Rapid peer review and thoughtful automated testing will be big parts of your day to day. Be prepared to continuously grow and improve both personally and professionally in our hypergrowth culture.

What we're looking for:

• Solid product ownership skills and customer empathy
• Experience handling ambiguity, surfacing trade-offs, and making pragmatic decisions
• Strong technical background of modern UI development, preferably with React/Typescript
• Strong knowledge of web backends, preferably with Python/Django
• Experience building resilient, extensible, observable solutions in a highly collaborative engineering environment

Technologies we use:

• Frontend: JavaScript, React, TypeScript, SASS, Jest, Cypress
• Backend: Python, Django, Postgres
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions

What you can expect from us:

• Meaningful compensation. In addition to your base salary, you’ll join our employee stock ownership plan to further recognize your contributions to Forma.ai’s success
• Healthcare coverage. We have a full benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, and a paid parental leave program
• Learning and development. Access the resources you want to help you grow in your role by utilizing our $750 yearly training stipend
• Growth. You’ll have a huge opportunity to build a career for yourself and gain the type of experience you’re looking for – whether that’s as an individual contributor or as a people leader

Our values:

• Work well, together. We’re real. We have kids and pets. Mortgages and student loans. We’re in this together, so no matter how brilliant any one of us is, we always play nice with one another – no exceptions.
• Be precise. Be relentless. We believe complacency breeds failure, so we set new goals as quickly as we achieve them. We persist in the face of adversity, learn from our mistakes, and push each other to continuously improve. The status-quo is kryptonite.
• Love our tech. Love our customers. Our platform solves a very complex problem in a currently underserved market. While everyone at Forma isn’t customer-facing, we’re all customer-focused. Maybe even slightly customer-obsessed. ­

Our commitment to you:

At Forma.ai, we’re diverse by design. We’re committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities in which we live and work. We also aim to have a barrier-free recruitment and selection process. We’ll work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.

We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of effort. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. There are many paths to a successful career and we’re looking forward to reading yours.

Please note all interviews are currently being conducted virtually.

We thank all applicants for their interest.