Jobs at Forge (Now Hiring) — 9 open

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As 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, humble and accountable. 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 planet-saving, plant-based nutrition and more.

Forge Global is building the operating system for the private market innovation economy. We have raised over $100 million in venture capital to date and facilitated more than $9 billion in private market transactions across over 370 of the world’s most famous unicorn companies. Forge Trust is a critical component of our vision to enable an unprecedented number of founders, early employees and other bold entrepreneurs to realize their dreams of company ownership. Whether through unlocking their ability to exercise stock options, enabling them to leverage their hard-earned equity, or diversifying their portfolio to secure a strong financial future for themselves and their families, Forge is building innovative liquidity solutions for everyone involved in private companies today.

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.

Forge’s CX engineering team is passionate about innovation and building scalable solutions that drive liquidity and growth in the private market. Our teams are leveraging a broad range of new technologies and are well-versed in delivering high quality, innovative solutions. We thrive on moving fast, delivering value, and living our values of being bold, humble and accountable. 

What You'll Do 

• Recruit, lead and develop CX engineers to realize a highly engaged team 
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Business leaders to define priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes. 
• Drive execution across complex initiatives while balancing speed, quality, scalability, and operational excellence. 
• Help establish technical direction and guide architectural decisions that support long-term business objectives. 
• Foster engineering best practices across software development, testing, security, reliability, and system operations. 
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. 
• Coach and mentor engineering managers and individual contributors to support their growth and career development. 
• Drive cross-functional alignment and help teams navigate ambiguity to achieve results. 
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, team effectiveness, and organizational scalability. 
• Contribute to technology strategy and investment decisions across the broader engineering organization. 

What We're Looking For: 

• Strong technical foundation and a solid understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices. 
• Proven experience leading engineering teams through complex technical and organizational challenges. 
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with a practical, execution-oriented mindset. 
• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization. 
• Track record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams. 
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills. 
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities. 
• Passion for technology, people leadership, and delivering customer value. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• 8-10 years of software engineering experience with progressive leadership responsibilities. 
• Experience leading engineering managers, multiple teams, or large-scale engineering initiatives. 
• Demonstrated success delivering complex technology solutions from concept through execution 

 For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual base salary range for this role is $245,000 - $270,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors