Formaaiinc
Staff Back End Engineer (Data Platform)
Toronto, Canada · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC#KotlinReactDjangoBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLAWSDockerSparkData EngineeringPerformance ManagementCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Engineers on this team construct our rules-based calculating engine for processing sales commissions.
- This might sound simple if you have never been exposed to sales comp plans, it is not!
- We are low on meetings, high on accountability.
Responsibilities
- You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design.
- Design and evolve backend services that power product workflows.
- Drive architectural decisions that balance extensibility, performance, and operational simplicity.
- Partner closely with Product to translate nuanced business requirements into clean, scalable designs.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to surface unarticulated risks, propose alternative approaches, and advocate for architectural improvements with sound technical reasoning.
- Expertise in at least one production-grade backend language (e.g., Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, C#, etc.).
- Experience working with hierarchical, graph-like, or relationship-heavy data structures.
- A track record of improving scalability, reliability, and observability in distributed or data-intensive systems.
- As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and trust.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AWS-based infrastructure and Kubernetes.
- Exposure to Sales Performance Management (SPM), RevOps, Incentive Compensation (ICM), or related domains. ****
- Technologies we use
- Frontend: JavaScript, React, TypeScript
- Backend: Java/Springboot, Django, Postgres
- Infrastructure: AWS, Docker
- What success looks like: 30/60/90 days
- By the end of your first 30 days, you will have:
Compensation
- Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized.
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.
- Most of the team are in EST time zone but we have a few located in PST and Central as well.
- We are far from maintenance / progressive evolution in many areas, there is a lot of room to make a big impact in the overall design.
- What you'll be doing
- Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, you will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform.
- You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma.
- This includes proactively identifying architectural risks, surfacing edge cases or constraints others may not see, and advocating for improvements that strengthen the long-term integrity of the system.
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