Private-market secondary trading platform with liquidity and data products
Forge operates a marketplace for buying and selling private company shares, paired with a private-market data business. Its stack centers on C#/.NET with Kafka, RabbitMQ, CQRS and WebSockets, an event-driven, low-latency architecture built for trading, spread across AWS, Azure and GCP. Hiring skews senior and toward engineering and data, matching active work on trading architecture, a Schwab integration and a data platform for external clients.
Forge is a San Francisco-based, privately held financial services company founded in 2014. It runs a secondary marketplace where shareholders and investors trade shares of pre-IPO private companies, alongside liquidity solutions and private-market data and index products. Its users include private companies, their employees, investors and institutions. The company has 201–500 employees and currently hires in the United States.
Forge uses C#, .NET, TypeScript, Java, Python and React, with Kafka, RabbitMQ, CQRS, Dapr and WebSockets for messaging. Data runs on PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis across AWS, Azure and GCP, managed with Terraform, Kubernetes and Flux.
Job posts point to a scalable trading platform architecture, low-latency technology integration, a Schwab integration, a future-state migration, and a data platform serving internal and external clients.
Yes. Engineering and data are Forge's largest hiring areas, with roles mostly at senior level and based in the United States, though overall hiring velocity is slowing.
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