Job DescriptionForage is a mission-driven payments company helping merchants accept EBT/SNAP payments online and enabling 42 million Americans to spend their food benefits on the internet.
We are a remote-first company, with team members spread across North America.
What we're looking for
We’re looking for a frontend engineer who loves to build products and developer tools on the web browser platform. You will build components that shoppers will use to pay for their groceries. You will also build tools and software development kits (SDK) that other engineers will use to build intuitive shopping experiences.
Responsibilities
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Design, build, and maintain our payments SDK.
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Design, build, and maintain our fully-hosted checkout webpage.
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Design, build, and maintain customer-facing technical documentation.
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Qualifications
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A strong engineering background and interest in user-centered design.
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Experience with ReactJS.
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You are proactive and self-driven.
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You have experience influencing, planning, and scoping large software projects.
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Offer
As of 12/16/22, if we hire you in San Francisco, your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
Base Compensation:
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Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
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Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.
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A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.
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A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
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A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.
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Senior Frontend Engineer, Web

Forage builds payment technology to increase online access to government benefits.42M Americans rely on their EBT cards (formerly known as ”food stamps”) to buy groceries, and our technology helps them purchase online groceries. Specifically, we sell software solutions to online grocery retailers that help them accept EBT cards at checkout. Our payments API and team of EBT experts provide the easiest path for them to access 42 million shoppers and $120B of food purchases.What we're looking forYou<ul><li>Love building great products and engineering systems</li><li>Can articulate your thoughts well</li><li>Can articulate and balance implementation tradeoffs</li><li>Are productive, resourceful, and an effective problem solver</li><li>Write high quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering</li><li>Exhibit a strong understanding of CS fundamentals from your Bachelor's in CS, engineering, related discipline, or equivalent industry experience</li><li>Work effectively in a remote setting and are able to overlap at least 4 hours per work day at 9am to 5pm PST</li></ul>Our stack<ul><li>Typescript + React + HTML + CSS</li><li>Python + Django + PostgreSQL</li><li>Amazon Web Services (AWS)</li></ul>Our offer<ul><li>Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.</li><li>Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.</li><li>A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.</li><li>A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.</li><li>A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.</li></ul>Our valuesMission-first.We optimize for the collective good and strive to improve the lives of as many people as possible. We build with dignity and consider the impact of our actions and decisions. We believe deeply in our mission and have a strong sense of duty to succeed on behalf of our customers.Act like an owner.We are all owners of Forage. We are biased towards action and accountability. We seek out problems and we solve them. We finish what we start and no task is beneath us. We take incremental steps to make Forage better tomorrow than it is today.We forage together.We value collaboration, diversity of background and thought, humility, and ideas over hierarchy. We celebrate others, admit our mistakes, assume positive intent, and invest in our people so that we can be our true selves and do our best work. “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together” - African Proverb.And we’re just getting started.We are dedicated to building for the long-term. We fundamentally believe that our work has only just begun and that our most important work has yet to be done.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Forage builds payment technology to increase online access to government benefits.42M Americans rely on their EBT cards (formerly known as ”food stamps”) to buy groceries, and our technology helps them purchase online groceries. Specifically, we sell software solutions to online grocery retailers that help them accept EBT cards at checkout. Our payments API and team of EBT experts provide the easiest path for them to access 42 million shoppers and $120B of food purchases.What we're looking forWe’re looking for an Engineering Manager who will cultivate a collaborative engineering culture and ensure the growth of their reportsResponsibilities<ul><li>Coach engineers and help them advance in their careers.</li><li>Empower engineers to achieve high levels of productivity.</li><li>Facilitate collaboration between varying software project stakeholders and contributors.</li><li>Support our hiring process (i.e., sourcing, screening, and interviewing).</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>You have managed teams that operated critical infrastructure.</li><li>You have successfully recruited and built great teams.</li><li>You thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.</li><li>You have the ability to dig into technical details to inform decision.</li></ul>Our offer<ul><li>Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.</li><li>Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.</li><li>A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.</li><li>A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.</li><li>A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.</li></ul>Our valuesMission-first.We optimize for the collective good and strive to improve the lives of as many people as possible. We build with dignity and consider the impact of our actions and decisions. We believe deeply in our mission and have a strong sense of duty to succeed on behalf of our customers.Act like an owner.We are all owners of Forage. We are biased towards action and accountability. We seek out problems and we solve them. We finish what we start and no task is beneath us. We take incremental steps to make Forage better tomorrow than it is today.We forage together.We value collaboration, diversity of background and thought, humility, and ideas over hierarchy. We celebrate others, admit our mistakes, assume positive intent, and invest in our people so that we can be our true selves and do our best work. “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together” - African Proverb.And we’re just getting started.We are dedicated to building for the long-term. We fundamentally believe that our work has only just begun and that our most important work has yet to be done.

Engineering Manager

Forage builds payment technology to increase online access to government benefits.42M Americans rely on their EBT cards (formerly known as ”food stamps”) to buy groceries, and our technology helps them purchase online groceries. Specifically, we sell software solutions to online grocery retailers that help them accept EBT cards at checkout. Our payments API and team of EBT experts provide the easiest path for them to access 42 million shoppers and $120B of food purchases.What we're looking forImagine working for a company where each improvement to site reliability and stability means better accessibility to food for someone in need. That’s exactly what you will be doing at Forage. We’re a fast growing startup that needs help scaling our infrastructure to support our payment processing activities. We process debit cards that low-income individuals and families use to buy groceries.In the first month, you will implement observability tools and an incident report system. By three months, you will have implemented a load testing framework and will have started bringing down latency as low as possible. By the end of your first year, you will have implemented infrastructure that processes over billions with 99.99% uptime.Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, build, and maintain observability tools for security and compliance of infrastructure environments</li><li>Design, build, and maintain our Infrastructure as Code tools and libraries</li><li>Design, build, and maintain our CI/CD pipelines</li><li>Continuously increase the accuracy and reliability of data pipelines for our payment data</li><li>Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack</li><li>Plan for the growth of Forage’s infrastructure</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>A strong engineering background and interest in systems challenges at scale</li><li>Experience with Python or Typescript</li><li>Experience optimizing the reliability and security of cloud infrastructure</li><li>Experience with scaling and migrating systems in a changing environment that allows for little to no downtime</li><li>Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging cloud infrastructure</li><li>Experience working with tools such as Terraform</li><li>Experience with Docker</li><li>Experience with AWS (ECS)</li><li>Experience managing PCI compliant environments</li></ul>Our offer<ul><li>Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.</li><li>Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.</li><li>A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.</li><li>A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.</li><li>A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.</li></ul>Our valuesMission-first.We optimize for the collective good and strive to improve the lives of as many people as possible. We build with dignity and consider the impact of our actions and decisions. We believe deeply in our mission and have a strong sense of duty to succeed on behalf of our customers.Act like an owner.We are all owners of Forage. We are biased towards action and accountability. We seek out problems and we solve them. We finish what we start and no task is beneath us. We take incremental steps to make Forage better tomorrow than it is today.We forage together.We value collaboration, diversity of background and thought, humility, and ideas over hierarchy. We celebrate others, admit our mistakes, assume positive intent, and invest in our people so that we can be our true selves and do our best work. “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together” - African Proverb.And we’re just getting started.We are dedicated to building for the long-term. We fundamentally believe that our work has only just begun and that our most important work has yet to be done.

Infrastructure Engineer

Forage builds payment technology to increase online access to government benefits.42M Americans rely on their EBT cards (formerly known as ”food stamps”) to buy groceries, and our technology helps them purchase online groceries. Specifically, we sell software solutions to online grocery retailers that help them accept EBT cards at checkout. Our payments API and team of EBT experts provide the easiest path for them to access 42 million shoppers and $120B of food purchases.What we're looking forWe’re looking for a frontend engineer who loves to build products and developer tools on the iOS platform. You will build components that shoppers will use to pay for their groceries. You will also build tools and software development kits (SDK) that other engineers will use to build intuitive shopping experiences.Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, build, and maintain our payments SDK.</li><li>Design, build, and maintain customer-facing technical documentation.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>A strong engineering background and interest in user-centered design.</li><li>Experience with iOS development.</li><li>You are proactive and self-driven.</li><li>You have experience influencing, planning, and scoping large software projects.</li></ul>Our offer<ul><li>Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.</li><li>Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.</li><li>A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.</li><li>A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.</li><li>A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.</li></ul>Our valuesMission-first.We optimize for the collective good and strive to improve the lives of as many people as possible. We build with dignity and consider the impact of our actions and decisions. We believe deeply in our mission and have a strong sense of duty to succeed on behalf of our customers.Act like an owner.We are all owners of Forage. We are biased towards action and accountability. We seek out problems and we solve them. We finish what we start and no task is beneath us. We take incremental steps to make Forage better tomorrow than it is today.We forage together.We value collaboration, diversity of background and thought, humility, and ideas over hierarchy. We celebrate others, admit our mistakes, assume positive intent, and invest in our people so that we can be our true selves and do our best work. “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together” - African Proverb.And we’re just getting started.We are dedicated to building for the long-term. We fundamentally believe that our work has only just begun and that our most important work has yet to be done.

Frontend Engineer, iOS

Forage builds payment technology to increase online access to government benefits.42M Americans rely on their EBT cards (formerly known as ”food stamps”) to buy groceries, and our technology helps them purchase online groceries. Specifically, we sell software solutions to online grocery retailers that help them accept EBT cards at checkout. Our payments API and team of EBT experts provide the easiest path for them to access 42 million shoppers and $120B of food purchases.What we're looking forWe’re looking for a frontend engineer who loves to build products and developer tools on the web browser platform. You will build components that shoppers will use to pay for their groceries. You will also build tools and software development kits (SDK) that other engineers will use to build intuitive shopping experiences.Responsibilities<ul><li>Design, build, and maintain our payments SDK.</li><li>Design, build, and maintain our fully-hosted checkout webpage.</li><li>Design, build, and maintain customer-facing technical documentation.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>A strong engineering background and interest in user-centered design.</li><li>Experience with ReactJS.</li><li>You are proactive and self-driven.</li><li>You have experience influencing, planning, and scoping large software projects.</li></ul>Our offer<ul><li>Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.</li><li>Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.</li><li>A remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.</li><li>A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.</li><li>A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.</li></ul>Our valuesMission-first.We optimize for the collective good and strive to improve the lives of as many people as possible. We build with dignity and consider the impact of our actions and decisions. We believe deeply in our mission and have a strong sense of duty to succeed on behalf of our customers.Act like an owner.We are all owners of Forage. We are biased towards action and accountability. We seek out problems and we solve them. We finish what we start and no task is beneath us. We take incremental steps to make Forage better tomorrow than it is today.We forage together.We value collaboration, diversity of background and thought, humility, and ideas over hierarchy. We celebrate others, admit our mistakes, assume positive intent, and invest in our people so that we can be our true selves and do our best work. “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together” - African Proverb.And we’re just getting started.We are dedicated to building for the long-term. We fundamentally believe that our work has only just begun and that our most important work has yet to be done.

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