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We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. \nOur growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. \nWe’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! \nAbout the team: \nEngineers on this team build the application our customers and internal teams use to configure, operate, manage, and visualize complex incentive compensation workflows.\nThis role sits within Forma’s ICM Operations platform, spanning areas such as Core Services, Business Intelligence, workflows, automation, APIs, claims management, next-generation reporting, and data exploration capabilities.\nThere are many complex and difficult areas across the product, especially across frontend architecture and user experience, because of high data volumes, wide configurability, complex business logic, and mission-critical operational workflows. The work is not just about building screens; it is about helping users understand, act on, and trust complex compensation data and operational processes.\nWe are low on meetings and high on accountability. Most of the team is in the EST timezone, with some teammates in PST and Central. We are far from maintenance or simple progressive evolution in many areas; there is a lot of room to make a meaningful impact on the overall user experience, product architecture, and frontend design patterns.\nWhat you'll be doing: \nReporting to the VP of Engineering the Senior Frontend Engineer will play a key role in building, evolving, and scaling Forma’s customer-facing and internal operations experiences.\nYou’ll work closely with product, design, engineering, operations, and leadership partners to deliver intuitive, performant, and reliable interfaces for configuring, operating, and analyzing complex sales compensation workflows. You’ll take ownership of significant frontend initiatives, contribute to product and technical direction, and help raise the quality of our frontend systems through thoughtful architecture, code quality, and collaboration.\nYou will help turn complex operational processes into clear, reusable, and scalable product experiences - from approvals and ticketing to claims workflows, policy-driven automation, dashboards, reporting, and data exploration.\nYou will:\nBuild and ship complex frontend features with React, TypeScript, SASS, Jest, and Cypress.\nCreate intuitive experiences for workflows, automation, claims, reporting, dashboards, and data exploration.\nTranslate complex compensation and operational workflows into clear, scalable UI.\nBuild reusable frontend and data visualization patterns that scale across customers.\nImprove frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, testing, and developer experience.\nBring customer empathy, product thinking, and operational awareness to your work.\nWhat we’re looking for\nWe’re looking for a frontend-focused engineer who is comfortable owning meaningful product work, collaborating across disciplines, and navigating ambiguity in a complex product domain.\nThis role is for someone who can take ownership of a product area from an engineering perspective, not just pick up tickets. You should be able to understand the business problem, reason through the user workflow, ask good questions, and partner with product and design to shape solutions that are technically sound, usable, and scalable.\nYou have:\nStrong experience building production web applications with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.\nExperience with complex, data-heavy, configurable user interfaces.\nExperience building dashboards, BI tools, reporting, analytics, or data visualization products.\nStrong frontend fundamentals across architecture, component design, state, performance, and testing.\nGood judgment around UX, accessibility, visualization patterns, and information hierarchy.\nProduct instincts and the ability to connect technical choices to user and business outcomes.\nComfort working with complex workflows, APIs, automation, claims, or policy-driven systems.\nStrong communication skills and a collaborative, candid, customer-focused working style.\nNice to have:\nExperience working on enterprise SaaS products.\nExperience with compensation, finance, workflow automation, analytics, business intelligence, or data-heavy operational applications.\nExperience building reusable data visualization, dashboarding, reporting, or exploration patterns.\nFamiliarity with Python, Django, APIs, Postgres, or backend systems.\nExperience contributing to design systems, frontend platforms, or shared component libraries.\nExperience designing frontend experiences that support both internal operations teams and external customers.\nTechnologies we use\nFrontend: JavaScript, React, TypeScript\nBackend: Java/Springboot, Django, Postgres\nInfrastructure: AWS, Docker\nWhat success looks like: 30/60/90 days\nFirst 30 days\nYou’ll focus on learning the product, team, codebase, customer context, and the operational workflows that power Forma’s ICM Operations platform.\nBy the end of your first 30 days, you will have:\nBuilt a strong understanding of Forma.ai ’s product, customer problems, and sales compensation domain.\nDeveloped context on the ICM Operations platform, including Core Services, Business Intelligence, workflows, automation, APIs, claims management, reporting, and data exploration capabilities.\nSet up your development environment and become comfortable navigating the frontend codebase.\nLearned the team’s engineering practices, release process, testing expectations, and collaboration norms.\nBuilt relationships with engineering, product, design, operations, and customer-facing teammates.\nShipped small to medium frontend improvements or bug fixes with support from the team.\nStarted identifying areas of frontend complexity, UX friction, technical debt, or inconsistent data visualization patterns where you may be able to contribute.\nBegun developing an understanding of how customers and internal teams use Forma to manage mission-critical operational workflows.\nFirst 60 days\nYou’ll begin owning more substantial frontend work and contributing to product and technical decisions.\nBy the end of your first 60 days, you will have:\nTaken ownership of one or more meaningful frontend features or product improvements within the ICM Operations platform.\nCollaborated with product, design, operations, and backend engineering to clarify requirements, edge cases, workflows, and user needs.\nDelivered well-tested, maintainable frontend code aligned with team standards.\nContributed to dashboard, reporting, workflow, claims, automation, or data exploration experiences.\nDemonstrated sound judgment in selecting frontend interaction and visualization patterns for specific user problems.\nParticipated actively in code reviews, technical discussions, and product discovery conversations.\nContributed improvements to frontend patterns, components, tests, or developer experience.\nBuilt enough domain context to make thoughtful tradeoffs between usability, technical complexity, scalability, and delivery timelines.\nStarted identifying opportunities to make frontend patterns more reusable across customers and use cases.\nBegun mentoring or supporting other engineers in areas where you have expertise.\nFirst 90 days\nYou’ll be operating as a trusted senior frontend contributor on the team.\nBy the end of your first 90 days, you will have:\nIndependently led frontend delivery for a complex feature or significant product area.\nHelped improve the quality, usability, performance, or maintainability of a key part of Forma’s ICM Operations platform.\nDelivered or meaningfully advanced frontend experiences related to workflows, automation, claims management, reporting, dashboards, APIs, or data exploration.\nBuilt strong working relationships with product, design, backend engineering, operations, and customer-facing partners.\nDemonstrated strong technical and product judgment in frontend architecture and implementation decisions.\nShown an ability to reason from business problem to user workflow to frontend solution.\nContributed to reusable frontend or visualization patterns that can scale across a broader client base.\nRaised the quality bar through code reviews, documentation, testing, and mentorship.\nContributed to the team’s frontend roadmap by identifying opportunities for simplification, consistency, scalability, and better user outcomes.\nDeveloped a clear understanding of where you can make a longer-term impact at Forma.ai.\nAdditional Job Info:\nThis position is for an existing vacancy\nSalary Range: 150-190K CAD\nWhat you can expect from us\nMeaningful compensation. In addition to your base salary, you’ll join our employee stock ownership plan to further recognize your contributions to Forma.ai ’s success.\nHealthcare coverage. We have a full benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, and a paid parental leave program.\nLearning and development. Access the resources you want to help you grow in your role by utilizing our $750 yearly training stipend.\nGrowth. You’ll have a huge opportunity to build a career for yourself and gain the type of experience you’re looking for, whether that’s as an individual contributor or as a people leader.\nOur Values: \nWork well, together. We’re real. We have kids and pets. Mortgages and student loans. We’re in this together, so no matter how brilliant any one of us is, we always play nice with one another - no exceptions. \nBe precise. Be relentless. We believe complacency breeds failure, so we set new goals as quickly as we achieve them. We persist in the face of adversity, learn from our mistakes, and push each other to continuously improve. The status-quo is kryptonite.\nLove our tech. Love our customers. Our platform solves a very complex problem in a currently underserved market. While everyone at Forma isn’t customer-facing, we’re all customer-focused. Maybe even slightly customer-obsessed. ­ \n Use of AI for Recruitment\nCurrently, Forma.ai does not useartificial intelligence as part of our recruitment process, specifically but not limited to the screening, filtering and shortlisting of applicants. \nOur commitment to you: \nForma is a proud equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially. We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of effort. 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