Senior Data Engineer
Forge Global · New York, NY
$110,000–$130,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining a data platform that serves both internal teams and external clients in the private securities market. Day-to-day work spans implementing new features, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, data orchestration, and deployments across backend and some frontend surfaces. The role suits engineers with a background in object-oriented languages, cloud platforms, and modern data architectures who have financial services or private markets experience.
Senior level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 110 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 80–140
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $134,433 (middle half $95,331–$179,625). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Senior Data Engineer' but the qualifications ask for only 3–5+ years of experience, which is consistent with a Senior band given the scope described (end-to-end feature ownership, CI/CD, data platform delivery).
The OOP language requirement (TypeScript, C#, or Java) is listed as a single interchangeable gate; TypeScript is used as the primary name with C# and Java as alternatives.
Familiarity with modern data architectures (Medallion Architecture, data lakes) and financial market data domain experience appear in the required qualifications section but name no specific tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
JIRA is listed under required qualifications with 'or similar' — treated as a hard gate on the capability; JIRA is the named tool.
Kafka and WebSockets appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
LLMs / agentic workflows appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
The posted salary range ($110,000–$130,000 + annual bonus) is stated as specific to New York, NY residents; final offers may vary.
The role requires 2–3 days per week in-office in Soho, NY — it is hybrid, not fully remote.
SOC classification is 15-1243 (Database Architects) given the explicit data platform / data engineering focus, but 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a close runner-up given the full-stack backend/frontend delivery scope mentioned in the qualifications.
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