Staff Software Engineer

Forward Financing is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with a hybrid work arrangement. In this role, you will shape frontend architecture, mentor engineers across teams, and guide technical direction across multiple domains to deliver robust user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Influence: Drive the design and implementation of substantial cross-functional systems that require alignment across several engineering teams; bring deep expertise in building complex systems across multiple apps and languages.
• Technical Leadership: Set the technical direction for your domain, elevate code quality, design patterns, and operational excellence; serve as a frontend ecosystem SME who promotes architectural integrity and best practices, guiding long-term frontend strategy.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Lead intricate cross-team initiatives with sustained engagement; ensure timely resolution of technical challenges and proactively address technical debt.
• Mentorship and Elevation: Improve engineering quality and efficiency through technical guidance and sponsorship; mentor junior engineers and raise the bar across the team.
• Problem-Solving: Tackle technical debt and promptly resolve incidents and bugs to maintain system reliability.

Requirements

• Experience: Typically 8+ years of technical leadership, mentorship, and sponsorship.
• Frontend expertise: Deep experience designing and implementing frontend systems and scalable architectures across multiple software applications and/or languages.
• Influence: A strong ability to influence others within a technical organization.
• Full-stack perspective: Frontend architecture experience with an understanding of how backend services impact the end-user experience.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Agile background: Several years of experience in agile software development.

Technologies

• React
• TypeScript
• Storybook
• Figma
• Datadog

Benefits

• Mission-driven: Forward Financing provides funding solutions to small businesses often underserved by traditional options, helping ensure access to necessary financial support.
• Flexible work environment: Employees can choose where to work—remote, in-office, or a hybrid arrangement—along with flexible hours.

Role Requirements

• Experience: Typically 8+ years in technical leadership, mentorship, and sponsorship.
• Frontend architecture: Deep expertise designing and implementing frontend systems and scalable architectures across multiple software applications and/or languages.
• Influence: Significant ability to influence others.
• Full-stack perspective: Experience with frontend architecture and understanding backend impact on the end-user experience.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or additional relevant experience.
• Agile experience: Several years of experience in agile software development.

Desired Technical Skills

• Modern React & TypeScript at scale: Production experience with React and TypeScript in long-lived codebases.
• State & data architecture: Strong understanding of server-state and client-state patterns and where each belongs.
• Design system stewardship: Has owned or shaped a shared component library, comfortable with primitive-based foundations, composition-first APIs, and Storybook-driven development.
• Design partnership & craft: Fluent in Figma, collaborates on designs, and prioritizes loading, empty, and error states for polished products.
• Accessibility as a baseline: Proficient with WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard/focus management, and ARIA semantics.
• Full-stack capability: Capable across the stack, designs API contracts with backend partners, reads and ships backend changes when needed, and reasons about data shape, latency, and auth implications for UX.
• Performance & observability: Optimizes for real-user performance using Web Vitals, bundle analysis, and RUM (Datadog or equivalent).

Compensation

• Annual Targeted Salary: $170,000-$200,000 USD
• Annual Target Bonus: 12%
• Compensation Range: $170K - $200K
• Notes: Final offers consider candidate qualifications, relevant experience, specific skills, and internal equity. Recruiter will provide details on base and variable components for this role.