Senior​/Backend Engineer Revenue

About Fora

Fora is the modern travel agency redefining what it means to be a travel advisor. We are a next-generation platform that provides a comprehensive, business-in-a-box solution—combining cutting-edge technology, personalized training, a vibrant community, and exclusive industry partnerships—designed to empower anyone with a passion for travel to turn that passion into a thriving business.

Our mission is to power the next generation of travel entrepreneurs to transform their love for travel into a fulfilling full-time or part-time career, offering flexibility, autonomy, and support. Fora combines innovative technology with the human touch, offering best-in-class training, a powerful toolset for booking, client management, and marketing, access to an engaged community, and exclusive partnerships with top travel brands.

Since our founding in 2021 by Henley Vazquez, Jake Peters, and Evan Frank, Fora has grown to a team of 130+ full-time employees in New York City. We have announced Series B and C investments and continue to build a unified platform for all travel needs.

Fora is a mission-driven company that believes in entrepreneurship, community, and passion. We are looking for talented and like-minded individuals to join our team and help scale our vision globally.

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to join the Payments & Revenue Pod, which builds and maintains the systems that power advisor payments  pod owns the end-to-end advisor payment system and experience (booking data ingestion, commission collection, and payouts) and is expanding into new fintech and payment products. You will design and implement scalable systems to ensure payouts are fast, accurate, and transparent, collaborating with Product and Ops to bring financial data to life in the Advisor Portal and internal tools.

You’ll help build services that handle booking ingestion, payout logic, reconciliation, and integrations with payment processors like Stripe. Projects include building visualizations for the Payments page, shaping traveler invoicing, building payout statuses and notifications, and integrating with new financial platforms.

Our ideal candidate understands our mission and is excited to shape how thousands of travel entrepreneurs get paid, bringing an eye for user experience, data integrity, and trust to every money-movement interaction.

• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and prioritize the roadmap for advisor payments, commission earnings, and revenue systems
• Design and maintain distributed systems that process booking, payment, and reconciliation data at scale
• Build and optimize backend services that power payout logic, transaction timing, ledger accuracy, and integrations with third-party payment platforms
• Focus on performance, architecture, data modeling, and transactional reliability in all systems you own
• Collaborate with other engineers to define end-to-end engineering solutions that connect frontend experiences with secure, verifiable backend processes
• Own epics and be responsible for the full solution—design, implementation, and delivery

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience in backend web development
• 3+ years experience with Python, using Django / Flask / equivalent frameworks
• Strong experience designing APIs and distributed systems that handle financial or transactional data
• Experience with relational databases, ORMs, and data models that support accounting or ledger-based workflows
• Background in Fin Tech, Payments, or Infrastructure—especially systems involving reconciliation, double-entry accounting, or money movement—is highly preferred
• AWS experience is a plus
• Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Ability to be a team player, with strong communication and collaboration skills
• An entrepreneurial mindset

Compensation for this role varies based on experience, with an indicative range of $155K–$225K + equity. Final compensation will depend on the level at which the candidate is hired.

• Unlimited vacation
• Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)
• Dental &…