Sr Software Engineer

About the Role

Forward is scaling fast, and we need senior engineers who can grow with the platform — not just build features, but harden, secure, and extend the system. This role is a core contributor on our engineering team. You'll ship full-stack product work, build agentic AI systems that automate complex workflows, and own meaningful parts of the platform as we scale it from where it is today to where it needs to be.

You will work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped technical solutions. We need someone who sees the gaps, fills them, and doesn't wait to be asked.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Stack Product Engineering

• Architect, build, and maintain full-stack applications using TypeScript, Next.js, React, and Node.js across our product surface area.
• Own end-to-end feature delivery from database schema and API design through frontend UI/UX, including observability, testing, and deployment.
• Drive architectural decisions across the stack, balancing speed with long-term durability.

Agentic AI & LLM Integration

• Design and implement agentic AI systems — autonomous agents that plan multi-step workflows, use tools, call APIs, and make decisions with minimal human oversight.
• Lead the integration of LLM-powered capabilities into production systems — prompt engineering, tool-use frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent orchestration.
• Stand up and evolve AI platform infrastructure as the roadmap matures — model serving, orchestration, and evaluation pipelines.

Streaming & Real-Time Data

• Build and operate real-time streaming data pipelines using Kafka (or Kafka-compatible platforms like WarpStream), stream processors, and event-driven architectures.
• Design event-driven data flows that feed both product and AI systems with low-latency data.
• Tune Kafka performance, partitioning strategies, and consumer groups for throughput and reliability.

Platform Scale & Security

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