Software Engineer
CA$190,000 / yr base salary
Posted 16 Jun 2026
Advertised as “Senior Software Engineer (Applications)”
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| Base salary | CA$190,000 / yr |
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About Forma.ai:
Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk.
Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy.
We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big!
About the Team
We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance and improve go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities.
We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our application teams. You’ll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers to design, build, and scale backend systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to work on complex product and data problems while contributing meaningfully to technical decisions, system quality, and team delivery.
We are low on meetings and high on accountability. Most of the team is in the EST time zone, with a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well.
What you’ll be doing
You will play an important role in the continued evolution of our application stack. You will design and build backend capabilities for complex product workflows, contribute to system design discussions, and help ensure our systems remain maintainable, reliable, and scalable as we grow.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are expected to operate with strong ownership and sound technical judgment. This includes identifying risks in the work you own, surfacing edge cases, asking thoughtful questions, and proposing improvements that strengthen the quality and reliability of the system.
You will:
- Design and build backend services that power complex product workflows.
- Contribute to data models for hierarchical, relationship-heavy, and enterprise-scale datasets.
- Make technical decisions that balance maintainability, performance, and operational simplicity.
- Improve testing, observability, and production reliability within the services you work on.
- Partner with Product to translate business requirements into clean, scalable backend designs.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Support other engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.