Senior Software Engineer II

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Forge Global

San Francisco, California, United States

On-site

Posted April 10, 2026

Job Description

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.

Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

The Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer II focusing on trading engineering, you will play a critical role in delivering a high-quality trading platform that powers trading functionality in the Forge Marketplace. You will identify opportunities to enhance trading products, including integrating modern low-latency technologies, and help define the direction and roadmap for trading engineering initiatives.

You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of trading technologies into products, improving both user experience and application performance.

Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities:

Deliver software on time with accurate estimates
Take ownership of production changes, including monitoring and maintaining runbooks
Provide high-quality code reviews and help improve team engineering standards
Design scalable and resilient trading platform architecture with a focus on performance
Participate in design reviews and contribute to technical direction
Serve as a technical expert for trading systems for internal teams and external partners
Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Solve complex engineering challenges, particularly within code generation frameworks

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
5–8 years of software engineering experience
5+ years of development experience in compiled, object-oriented languages (e.g., TypeScript, C#, Java)
2+ years of experience in dynamic scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Ruby)
Experience with real-time data processing and event-driven systems (e.g.

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