Formaaiinc

Formaaiinc

Senior Software Engineer (Applications)

Toronto, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$190kDetected 27 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC#KotlinReactDjangoSpringBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLAWSDockerAccessibilityPerformance ManagementCommunication

About the role

  • Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities.
  • We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our application teams.
  • This is an opportunity to work on complex product and data problems while contributing meaningfully to technical decisions, system quality, and team delivery.

Responsibilities

  • You will design and build backend capabilities for complex product workflows, contribute to system design discussions, and help ensure our systems remain maintainable, reliable, and scalable as we grow.
  • This includes identifying risks in the work you own, surfacing edge cases, asking thoughtful questions, and proposing improvements that strengthen the quality and reliability of the system.
  • Design and build backend services that power complex product workflows.
  • Partner with Product to translate business requirements into clean, scalable backend designs.
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
  • Support other engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, C#, or similar.
  • Experience with hierarchical, graph-like, relationship-heavy, or workflow-driven data structures.
  • Ability to identify technical risks, reason through tradeoffs, and propose practical improvements.
  • Experience improving scalability, reliability, observability, or maintainability in production systems.
  • Comfort collaborating across Engineering, Product, and Analytics while remaining hands-on.
  • As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are expected to operate with strong ownership and sound technical judgment.
  • Improve testing, observability, and production reliability within the services you work on.

Nice to have

  • Experience with rule-driven systems, validation workflows, or approval/governance platforms.
  • Familiarity with AWS-based infrastructure and Kubernetes.
  • Exposure to Sales Performance Management, RevOps, Incentive Compensation, or related domains.
  • Technologies we use
  • Frontend: JavaScript, React, TypeScript
  • Backend: Java/Spring Boot, Django, Postgres
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Docker
  • What success looks like: 30/60/90 days

Compensation

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Healthcare coverage.

Company info

  • 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. ­
  • We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance and improve go-to-market agility.
  • You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers to design, build, and scale backend systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows.
  • We are low on meetings and high on accountability.
  • Most of the team is in the EST time zone, with a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well.
  • What you'll be doing
  • You will play an important role in the continued evolution of our application stack.

Equal opportunity

  • Forma is a proud equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.
  • equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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