Formaaiinc
Staff Back End Engineer (Applications)
Toronto, Canada · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC#KotlinReactDjangoBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLAWSDockerPerformance ManagementCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities.
- We are seeking Staff Backend Engineers to join our application teams.
- You'll work alongside other staff, senior, and early-career engineers to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows.
Responsibilities
- You will lead development efforts for complex backend capabilities and serve as a technical example in system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability.
- 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.
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.
- We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility.
- This is an opportunity to influence both technical direction and product direction.
- We are low on meetings, high on accountability.
- Most of the team are in EST time zone but we have a few located in AST, PST and Central as well.
- What you'll be doing
- You will play a critical role in the continued evolution of our application stack.
- You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise scale reliability.
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