Staff Growth Software Engineer

Forter

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Forter is looking for a Staff Growth Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture of our merchant Onboarding Experience platform. Your mission is to slash integration time from months to weeks (or less), cut internal hand-offs, and unlock faster time-to-revenue. Operating as Forter’s most senior engineer in North America, you’ll bridge Go-to-Market teams with global R&D, hunting for friction, proposing bold initiatives, and driving them end to end.

Requirements

• 8+ years building production systems and developer-facing platforms, with 2+ years at Staff-level (or equivalent) owning architecture and cross-functional initiatives.
• A track record of shipping SDKs, APIs, or tooling that external engineers rely on and iterating via docs, samples, and community feedback.
• Hands-on depth with Node.js/Python and AWS-based architectures.
• Business-impact mindset: comfortable measuring success in time-to-integration and revenue acceleration.
• Stellar communication and influence skills; you translate between technical, product, and commercial languages with ease.
• Self-directed, entrepreneurial approach: you find problems, align stakeholders, and drive to results without formal process.

Nice To Haves

• Experience tackling schema-on-read / data-model variation challenges.
• Background in partner, solutions, or developer advocacy engineering: creating code samples, or tooling at scale
• Experience working with eCommerce platforms and understanding merchant data flows
• Exposure to payments infrastructure, especially providers like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, or Worldpay

Responsibilities

• Spot, scope, and lead high-impact onboarding initiatives: SDKs, schema-aware mapping automation, enhancements to our Integration Center, and self-serve validation pipelines.
• Architect and evolve a multi-tenant onboarding platform that copes with Forter’s vertical-specific schemas while remaining simple for merchants’ developers.
• Partner cross-functionally with Implementation Engineering, Customer Success, Support, Analytics, and Sales to translate real-world pain points into reusable platform capabilities—never one-off projects.
• Mentor and multiply: guide North America-based engineers via design reviews, ADRs, and architecture sessions; represent the Onboarding Experience team in company-wide forums.
• Drive the technical vision and long-term roadmap, ensuring the platform directly supports Forter’s strategic goals—accelerating revenue growth, reducing time-to-revenue, and simplifying revenue diversification
• Champion developer experience: clear docs, open-source examples, automated tests, friction-free releases, so our platform becomes a strategic differentiator.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• RSUs
• Matching 401K Plan
• Comprehensive and generous health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Home office allowance
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed