Founding Engineer, Financial Products
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- US
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally with experience building consumer-facing products from 0 to 1.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills and the ability to independently build and ship complete product experiences.
- A product mindset you care deeply about the customer problem, not just the technical implementation.
- Experience working in highly ambiguous environments where the right solution isn't obvious and requirements evolve as you learn.
- A track record of moving quickly from idea to prototype to production while maintaining high standards for quality.
- Strong frontend experience with modern frameworks such as React and TypeScript paired with the ability and willingness to build backend systems.
- Experience designing backend services, APIs, integrations, and data models.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, debugging, performance, and scalability.
- Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, technical quality, user experience, and long-term scalability.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills and an ability to work closely with Product, Design, Data, Legal, Security, and business teams.
- High degree of ownership and comfort independently driving projects from loosely defined problems to measurable customer outcomes.
- Excitement about advancing food access, financial inclusion, and financial opportunity for millions of Americans.
Full description
About Us:
Forage’s mission is to expand financial access for low-income families.
According to recent studies, the cost of groceries is the number-one financial stressor in America—even more stressful than housing, healthcare, and childcare. At Forage, we believe that it doesn’t have to be that way, and our mission is to help people put food on the table.
Our technology makes it easy for retailers like Albertsons and Dollar General to accept benefits like SNAP and WIC. Our free consumer app helps cost-conscious shoppers check their EBT balances, find savings, and earn rewards on everyday purchases. And we’re just getting started: we’re building new products every day that will help low-income families save on groceries and improve their financial health.
Our impact so far:
- Forage’s payments technology is used at over 100,000+ stores in all 50 states
- We’ve helped deliver tens of millions of grocery orders to low-income families
- Over the last year, we’ve grown payments volume by more than 13x
- Since its launch in 2025, the Forage App has been downloaded over 300,000 times
- We recently raised our $40M Series B, bringing our total funding to over $75M
Watch our story and see why we do what we do.
The Role
We're looking for a Founding Product Engineer to help build the next generation of financial products for the millions of low-income Americans who interact with Forage.
Forage is the leading payment processor for regulated payments, starting with EBT. We've built the infrastructure that enables some of the world's largest retailers and delivery platforms, including Uber Eats, DoorDash, Gopuff, Albertsons, Dollar General, and 7-Eleven, to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
Now, we're building on that foundation to give consumers new tools to improve their financial lives.
As a Founding Product Engineer, you'll partner closely with our Product Lead to identify, prototype, launch, and scale new consumer financial products across the Forage app, online and in-store grocery checkout, and other emerging product surfaces. These products may help consumers save money, earn supplementary income, build and access credit, increase their purchasing power, and better manage their financial lives.
This is a highly entrepreneurial engineering role. You won't simply receive fully defined requirements and execute against them. You'll work alongside Product and Design to understand our users, identify opportunities, evaluate potential solutions, and figure out what we should build and how we can build it quickly and responsibly.
You'll be expected to move comfortably across the stack and take products from idea to production. One week you might prototype a new consumer experience; the next, you could design the backend services, APIs, integrations, or data models needed to bring it to life.