Lead Software Engineer - Remote Opportunity

Fora Financial is a technology enabled, leading provider of flexible financing to small and medium sized businesses. Since our inception in 2008, we have supported more than 55,000 merchants nationwide with over $4 billion of capital used for a variety of purposes, from funding everyday operating expenses to managing cash flow gaps to facilitating business expansion, and much more. Leveraging our proprietary technology, Fora Financial is able to deliver capital to our customers via a streamlined and simple process that can be completed in as little as 24 hours, compared with the weeks or even months it often takes for a business to receive a bank loan. 

Over the past fourteen years, Fora Financial has grown from two founders in a small Manhattan workspace to a company of over 150 employees with new offices in New York and Miami. Fora Financial prides itself on being a partner-centric organization, offering a customized funding approach, collaborating with our small-business customers to understand their needs in a dynamic and ever-changing economic environment.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to spearhead one of our Agile teams in developing cutting-edge FinTech software. In our organization, we value innovative thinking, impactful work, and high levels of autonomy, offering you an environment where your leadership and technical skills will significantly influence our products and teams.

Our environment is completely built and hosted on Azure Cloud.  You will work with Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, C#, .NET Core, .NET Framework, Azure API Gateway, SQL Server, Angular, and many other technologies.  There are opportunities to improve existing software and new development initiatives every quarter.  Our developers are truly full stack and touch everything from the database to the front end to dev-ops.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record in technical leadership.
• 2+ Mentoring other developers and leading Scrum teams.
• Mastery in writing well-designed, testable, and efficient code.
• Leading and overseeing the integration of external APIs to enhance our core platform.
• Participate in daily standups and Agile Ceremonies
• Conducting and overseeing code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices.

What you should have:

• Significant C# experience
• Significant .NET Core microservices development experience 
• Thorough understanding of SOLID principles, especially IOC and SRP
• Expertise with automated unit and integration testing
• SQL expertise
• Entity Framework expertise
• Solid command of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and preferably Angular 
• In depth knowledge of relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
• Extensive experience with Git
• Work well with a remote distributed team
• Excellent communication and team leadership skills

What we would love you to have:

• Proven experience in leading full-stack project development from inception to deployment
• Experience in a distributed environment
• SQL Reporting Experience (Raw Queries, SSRS, Power BI, etc.)
• Knowledge of N-Layer application architecture, exception handling, and logging
• Cloud development experience (especially Azure)
• Communication Protocol experience (REST, lightweight messaging, WCF, etc.)
• Modern UI Framework experience (Angular, React, Vue, TypeScript) preferably Angular
• DevOps experience
• NoSQL experience
• Salesforce Exposure

Why Fora Financial?   

• Attractive company subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with leading insurance providers
• 401k Plan with Company Match    
• Gym Reimbursement for Employees on Medical Plans   
• Life Insurance at No Cost to Employees   
• Generous Time Off Plan  
• Flexible Spending and Commuter Benefits

*Remote Opportunity - Working in Eastern US Time Zone*

Fora Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer