Forage
Payments infrastructure for government benefits
Senior Backend Engineer
About the role
About Us:
Forage is a mission-driven payments company that is helping merchants accept government benefits through a single, unified API. Today, over 42 million Americans receive government assistance (ex: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) to buy groceries.
Starting with enabling EBT SNAP online, Forage builds the financial infrastructure empowering merchants of all shapes and sizes to serve these shoppers online.
We function as a hybrid organization, actively hiring across North America. While we embrace remote work, we prioritize candidates who can contribute from our San Francisco office.
What we're looking for:
- Love building great products and engineering systems
- Can articulate your thoughts well
- Can articulate and balance implementation tradeoffs
- Are productive, resourceful, and an effective problem solver
- Write high quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering
- Exhibit a strong understanding of CS fundamentals from your Bachelor's in CS, engineering, related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
- Experience building a PayFac or Payment Processor system
- Experience with Logging and Observability tools
- Work effectively in a remote setting and are able to overlap at least 4 hours per work day at 9am to 5pm PST
Our stack:
- Python + Django + PostgreSQL + NodeJS
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Our offer:
As of 9/13/23, 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:
- Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
- Competitive compensation: salary, equity, and benefits.
- A remote-first work environment within North America with opportunity for onsite meetings.
- A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
- A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.
About Forage
Forage builds payment technology to increase online access to government benefits.
Every year, the US government distributes over a $1 trillion worth of benefits through specialized payment networks. We want to move that spend online through a unified API.
Our first product offering helps low-income Americans buy online groceries. 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.
