Founding Engineer, Financial Products

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, Door Dash, 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.

We're looking for someone who wants to be an early technical owner of an entirely new product area and who is energized by the opportunity to build 0 to 1 products that can meaningfully improve people's financial lives.

• Build new financial products from 0 to 1. Partner with our Product Lead to rapidly turn customer problems and product ideas into prototypes, experiments, and production-ready experiences.
• Own products end-to-end. Take responsibility for the full technical lifecycle from architecture and implementation through launch, monitoring, iteration, and scale.
• Help shape the product, not just the code. Participate in product discovery, challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and bring technical creativity to decisions about what we build.
• Move quickly from idea to customer. Prototype and ship early versions of products so we can learn from real users, validate hypotheses, and iterate quickly.
• Build across the stack. Work across consumer-facing applications, backend services, APIs, data models, integrations, and infrastructure depending on what the product requires.
• Develop intuitive consumer experiences. Build simple, trustworthy experiences for financial products that may otherwise feel complex or inaccessible.
• Integrate with financial and commerce ecosystems. Build integrations with financial institutions, fintech platforms, retailers, delivery platforms, and other third-party partners that power our products.
• Use data to improve what you build. Partner with Product and Data to understand user behavior, measure product performance, and iterate based on what we learn.
• Balance speed with trust. Make thoughtful engineering decisions in a regulated environment where security, privacy, reliability, and compliance are critical.
• Establish the technical foundation for a new product area. Make early architectural decisions that allow us to experiment quickly today while building toward products that can eventually serve millions of consumers.
• Help build the team. As an early engineer in this product area, help establish engineering practices, technical standards, and culture as the team grows.