Forward Financing · 3 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer, MLOps
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expForward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in MLOps to design and build their online feature store, ensuring low latency and high reliability for ML features used in production models.
FinanceFinTechFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate the online feature store — the real-time serving layer that delivers ML features to production models with low latency and strong consistency guarantees
Build and maintain data pipelines (batch and streaming) that compute, validate, and publish features from source systems into the online and offline stores
Work on the data models and Postgres schemas that back real-time feature serving, optimizing for query performance, freshness, and scale
Act as a technical leader for feature store infrastructure; help drive enhancements to quality, scalability, reliability, and observability for the systems ML models depend on
Partner closely with our Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Product Management, and Application Development teams to translate business requirements into production-grade engineering solutions
Contribute to mentoring for junior engineers
Contributing to best practices and raising the bar through thoughtful code reviews and contributions to technical design discussions
Qualification
Required
5+ years of software experience, with a focus on backend systems (Python required) and 2-3 years of MLOps experience
Strong experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred) — schema design, query optimization, and operating databases under production load
Experience building and operating real time inference systems
Understanding of the unique reliability and correctness demands of ML-serving infrastructure (data freshness, training/serving skew, feature consistency)
Experience in mutli-service architectures and design patterns
Experience in Agile software development
Typically has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or additional relevant experience
Preferred
Experience with feature stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton, SageMaker Feature Store) or building an equivalent system in-house
Experience with MLOps tooling (e.g., MLflow, Airflow, dbt) and ML model deployment/serving patterns
Experience designing and implementing complex systems across multiple software applications and/or languages
Excellent written and verbal communication
Ability to influence others
Demonstrated project management skills
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and commuter benefits
A flexible time-off policy
Paid parental leave
401k match for US employees
Wellness reimbursement
Volunteering days
Annual professional development budget
Charitable donation match
Employee Choice policy means that almost all of our employees get to decide where they work
Company
Forward Financing
Forward Financing is a fintech company that provides fast, flexible working capital to small businesses nationwide.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.06B2026-07-16Debt Financing· $525M
2024-09-19Debt Financing· $200M
2021-06-07Debt Financing· $250M
Leadership Team
Jason Mullins
President & Chief Executive Officer
Justin Bakes
Co-founder & Executive Chairman
Recent News
2026-07-22
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