<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong><span data-contrast="none">About Forma.ai:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></h3> <p><span data-contrast="none"><a href="https://www.forma.ai/" target="_blank">Forma.ai</a> is a Series B</span><span data-contrast="none"> 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. </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big!</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Senior Staff Backend Engineer</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134245418":true,"134245529":true,"335559738":299,"335559739":299}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">About the Team</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134245418":true,"134245529":true,"335559738":281,"335559739":281}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking a </span><strong><span data-contrast="none">Senior Staff Backend Engineer</span></strong><span data-contrast="none"> to join our application teams and help set technical direction across multiple domains within engineering. You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers, and partner closely with engineering leadership to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to own complex, multi-domain technical problems and shape product direction beyond a single team. We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the teams are in the EST time zone, but we have a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">What </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">you'll</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3"> be doing</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"134245418":true,"134245529":true,"335559738":281,"335559739":281}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our application stack across multiple domains. You will lead development efforts for our most complex initiatives, the kind that span two or more teams or product areas, and serve as a technical benchmark for system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise-scale reliability, and your work will often set standards that neighboring teams adopt. This remains a hands-on role; you personally ship the hardest work in your domain rather than only setting direction for others.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">As a Senior Staff Engineer, you are expected to operate with a very high degree of ownership, trust, and independent judgment. This includes proactively identifying architectural risks that cross team boundaries, surfacing edge cases or constraints others may not see, and advocating improvements that strengthen the long-term integrity of the systems you own. Where the opportunity is there, and especially when you're excelling in the role, your influence can extend across the broader org, but the core expectation is deep ownership of complex domains spanning multiple teams. We value engineers who bring forward thoughtful, sometimes contrarian perspectives, even when they challenge deeply held assumptions, and who help neighboring teams see around corners.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">You will:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="13" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Design and evolve backend services and architectural patterns that power product workflows across two or more teams or do