Job Overview
Location
Remote - United States
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
July 21, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with an operational hub in Santiago, Dominican Republic, on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America.
- • The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way.
- • Our Engineering team serves as a key driver of innovation at Forward Financing. We build the software that powers a FinTech product that serves Small Businesses across the country.
- • A key part of our strategy involves leveraging data from dozens of sources to power our AI/ML initiatives and our analytical capabilities.
- • We're looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for the systems that power our online (real-time) feature store — the infrastructure that serves ML features to production models with low latency and high reliability.
- • Design, build, and operate the online feature store — the real-time serving layer that delivers ML features to production models with low latency and strong consistency guarantees
- • Build and maintain data pipelines (batch and streaming) that compute, validate, and publish features from source systems into the online and offline stores
- • Work on the data models and Postgres schemas that back real-time feature serving, optimizing for query performance, freshness, and scale
- • Act as a technical leader for feature store infrastructure; help drive enhancements to quality, scalability, reliability, and observability for the systems ML models depend on
- • Partner closely with our Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Product Management, and Application Development teams to translate business requirements into production-grade engineering solutions
- • Contribute to mentoring for junior engineers
- • Contributing to best practices and raising the bar through thoughtful code reviews and contributions to technical design discussions
- • Mission-driven company: Forward is a trusted source of fast, flexible funding for small businesses that have often been underserved by traditional financing options. When you join the team, you will help ensure all small businesses have access to the financial support they need to succeed.
- • Flexibility is a top priority: Our employees are empowered to choose where they want to work (whether that's from home, in the office, or a combination of both).
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of software experience, with a focus on backend systems (Python required) and 2-3 years of MLOps experience
- • Strong experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred) — schema design, query optimization, and operating databases under production load
- • Experience building and operating real time inference systems
- • Understanding of the unique reliability and correctness demands of ML-serving infrastructure (data freshness, training/serving skew, feature consistency)
- • Experience in mutli-service architectures and design patterns
- • Experience in Agile software development
- • Typically has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or additional relevant experience
🏖️ Benefits
- • Annual Salary: $175,000 - $220,000 USD
- • Annual Bonus: You have the potential to earn an additional 10% annual bonus
- • Comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, and commuter benefits, a flexible time-off policy, paid parental leave, 401k match for US employees, wellness reimbursement, volunteering days, annual professional development budget, and charitable donation match
- • Flexible time-off policy
- • Paid parental leave
- • 401k match for US employees
- • Wellness reimbursement
- • Volunteering days
- • Annual professional development budget
- • Charitable donation match
🏠 Location
- • Remote - United States
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About Forward Financing, LLC
Forward Financing, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses across the United States through merchant cash advances and short-term loans. The company uses proprietary technology and data analytics to offer fast approvals and funding, typically within one business day, without requiring collateral or perfect credit. Serving over 35,000 businesses, Forward Financing focuses on industries such as retail, restaurants, and services. It emphasizes transparent terms and dedicated customer support to help clients manage cash flow, purchase inventory, expand operations, or address unexpected expenses.
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