Forma is simple, easy to use, and gives employees direct access to all their available benefits options through an intuitive interface. Backed by Emergence Capital.
About the role
As Senior Manager on the Platform side at Forma, you'll lead the backend team responsible for the core systems that power our entire benefits platform. Your team owns the reliability, scalability, and performance of the backend systems that every product and customer-facing team builds on. Under your leadership, the team will drive end-to-end ownership of these services from architecture through deployment and operational excellence.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, including experience managing a platform, infrastructure, or backend systems team
- 10+ years of experience developing backend software applications, with deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architecture
- Proven track record of building and scaling large-scale, complex distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience owning platform reliability — SLAs/SLOs, incident management, observability, and on-call practices
- Experience developing engineering talent and helping them achieve their personal and professional goals through hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Ability to foster a collaborative environment through strong partnerships with Product, Security, and other Engineering teams
More about this role
The employee benefits landscape needs a reset. Companies invest millions annually in benefits that employees neither value nor use regularly. Forma, founded in 2017, set out to challenge this one-size-fits-all approach.
Forma's global lifestyle benefits platform enables companies to offer competitive packages while reducing costs and inefficiencies. While giving employees more choice and flexibility in spending their benefit allowances, the Forma platform saves HR, total rewards, and benefits professionals countless hours they would have spent managing and supporting multiple point solutions.
With Forma, companies can choose from a suite of products, including Lifestyle Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Flexible Spending Accounts, and more. These products allow companies to design and deliver customized benefits programs through a single platform. Employees can then spend account funds in three ways: The Forma Store, The Forma Visa Card, or claim reimbursement.
Forma has helped hundreds of renowned companies, including Stripe, UKG, lululemon, and Tripadvisor, to design equitable, scalable, and flexible benefits programs for nearly 1...
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