Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk.
Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy.
We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big!
We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance and improve go-to-market agility. 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. You’ll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers to design, build, and scale backend systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to work on complex product and data problems while contributing meaningfully to technical decisions, system quality, and team delivery.
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.
You will play an important role in the continued evolution of our application stack. 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.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are expected to operate with strong ownership and sound technical judgment. 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.
You will:
Frontend:JavaScript, React, TypeScript
Backend:Java/Spring Boot, Django, Postgres
Infrastructure:AWS, Docker
You’ll build context across Forma.ai’s product, customers, backend architecture, data models, and engineering practices.
By the end of your first 30 days, you will have:
You’ll begin owning meaningful backend work and contributing to technical decisions.
By the end of your first 60 days, you will have:
You’ll be operating as a trusted senior contributor within the team.
By the end of your first 90 days, you will have:
Additional Job Info:
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.
Healthcare coverage. 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.
Growth. 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.
Currently, Forma.ai does not use artificial intelligence as part of our recruitment process, specifically but not limited to the screening, filtering and shortlisting of applicants.
Forma is a proud equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially. We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of effort. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. There are many paths to a successful career and we’re looking forward to reading yours.
We thank all candidates for their interest however only qualified applicants will be shortlisted.
Forma.ai is a ground-breaking Sales Performance Management platform that fully integrates sales planning with rapid (and scalable) incentive compensation management.
Creating a single, complete source of truth with your data, our platform consolidates the planning and administration of territories, quotas, and incentives with all of their dependencies.
Trusted by innovators like Autodesk, Stryker, and Trustpilot, we're the only SPM platform on the market rapidly accelerating rule-building for incentive compensation plans with templates and a proprietary, collective data model.
Now global sales teams, revenue operations leaders, and compensation teams can collaboratively plan and deploy even the most complex SPM strategies at speed and scale.
