Secondary marketplace and liquidity platform for private company shares
Forge operates a trading platform for private market secondary shares, built on a polyglot stack spanning .NET, React, Java, and Kafka — with heavy infrastructure investment in Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP). The hiring surge is engineering-forward (25 of 56 roles in the last 30 days), concentrated at senior and director levels, reflecting active work on low-latency trading systems, marketplace middleware, and API scaling as the core bottleneck.
Notable leadership hires: Content Director
Forge is a fintech platform connecting companies, employees, and institutional investors to trade private company shares on a secondary marketplace. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates a liquidity and data infrastructure layer for the private markets, offering trading execution, market data, and insights to institutional and individual participants. The product spans automated client engagement, marketplace distribution integrations, and new intermediary product launches across supply-side and institutional segments.
Forge uses .NET, C#, and Java on the backend; React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Angular on the frontend; PostgreSQL and MySQL for data; Kafka for event streaming; and Kubernetes, Terraform, and Flux for infrastructure orchestration across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Forge is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company actively hires in the United States and Canada.
Forge's technology stack, projects, and hiring signals are inferred from public hiring and company data — career pages, public listings, and company web presence — then clustered and de-duplicated. Figures are estimates that refresh over time. Read our full methodology →
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