• Help run the day-to-day programming of B/R’s social platforms (content packaging, event planning, community building) around hockey, and NHL on TNT • Help lead our in-game coverage during the regular season and playoffs through the 2027 Stanley Cup, clipping highlights in real-time to publish across our social platforms • Have a say in helping to develop and execute social strategy on content packaging, selection, curation and hook writing around hockey • Work closely with the national programming team to identify content that should live on B/R’s national handles • Assist the greater B/R Sports Portfolio ecosystem as needed, with flexibility to cover multiple sports • This role will require nights and weekends during the regular season

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way. At Forward, we're building a world-class fintech platform to empower small businesses. Our engineering team isn't just a support function, we're a core driver of the business. We use data from dozens of third-party vendors to fuel our AI/ML initiatives and create a more sophisticated financial ecosystem. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to be a pivotal technical leader within our engineering teams. This person will take ownership of the design and implementation of highly complex and impactful systems that span across multiple domains, with a particular focus on our frontend systems. As a subject matter expert, you will set the technical direction and raise the bar for code quality, design patterns, and operational excellence for your domain. Your ability to influence others will be crucial as you lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor engineers, helping to elevate the quality and efficiency of the entire team. In this role, you will: - Architectural Influence: Lead the design and implementation of significant, cross-functional systems that require technical alignment across multiple engineering teams. They also have significant expertise in designing and implementing complex systems across multiple software applications and/or languages. - Technical Leadership: As a lead engineer for their domain, this Staff Engineer sets the technical direction and raises the bar for code quality, design patterns, and operational excellence. They are a subject matter expert on the frontend software ecosystem, actively promoting architectural integrity and technical best practices, and serving as a long-term visionary who can drive change and directionally shape the frontend architecture. - Cross-Team Collaboration: The Staff Engineer leads complex, cross-team initiatives and maintains a high level of engagement across multiple teams. This includes ensuring timely resolution of technical challenges and addressing technical debt. - Mentorship and Elevation: This role improves the quality and efficiency of the engineering team through technical guidance, mentorship, and sponsorship. They act as a mentor for junior engineers, instilling best practices and raising the bar. - Problem-Solving: The Staff Engineer is instrumental in addressing technical debt and promptly resolving incidents and bugs Why you should apply: - Mission-driven company: Forward is a trusted source of fast, flexible funding for small businesses that have often been underserved by traditional financing options. When you join the team, you will help ensure all small businesses have access to the financial support they need to succeed. - Flexibility is a top priority: Our employees are empowered to choose where they want to work (whether that’s from home, in the office, or a combination of both) with flexible hours. Role Requirements:(Even if you don’t check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply.) - Typically has 8+ years of experience in technical leadership, mentorship, and sponsorship. - Has deep expertise in designing and implementing frontend systems and scalable architectures across multiple software applications and/or languages. - Has a significant ability to influence others. - Possesses a full-stack perspective or experience with front-end architecture, with an understanding of how backend services impact the end-user experience. - Typically has a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or additional relevant experience. - Typically has several years of experience in agile software development. Desired Technical Skills: - Modern React & TypeScript at scale: Years of production experience with React and TypeScript in long-lived codebases. - State & data architecture: Deep familiarity with current server-state and client-state patterns and a clear point of view on where each belongs. - Design system stewardship: Has owned or meaningfully shaped a shared component library — comfortable with primitive-based foundations, composition-first component APIs, and Storybook-driven development. - Design partnership & craft: Reads Figma fluently, collaborates closely on designs, and cares about the loading, empty, and error states that define polished products. - Accessibility as a baseline: Fluent in WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard and focus management, and ARIA semantics - Full-stack capability: Holds their own across the stack — can design API contracts with backend partners, read and ship backend changes when the work crosses service boundaries, and reason about how data shape, latency, and auth choices flow through to the end-user experience. - Performance & observability: Tunes for real-user performance using Web Vitals, bundle analysis, and RUM (Datadog or equivalent) Compensation: Annual Targeted Salary: $170,000-$200,000 CAD Annual Target Bonus: 12% At Forward Financing, we're committed to fair and transparent compensation. We believe in providing a compensation package that recognizes your skills, experience, and the unique value you bring to our team. We take a market-based approach to pay, regularly reviewing benchmark data to ensure our compensation remains competitive, equitable, and aligned with our performance-driven culture. Final offers are determined by a variety of factors, including the candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, specific skills, and internal equity. This approach ensures that our compensation is competitive and equitable. Your recruiter will provide specific details on the expected base and variable earnings as it pertains to this specific role.

• Configure and customize Power Apps solutions (canvas and model‑driven) to meet business and mission requirements • Develop automation workflows using Power Automate to streamline processes and improve operational efficiency • Work with Microsoft Dataverse, SharePoint Online, and related data sources to design scalable data structures • Analyze requirements, acceptance criteria, and wireframes to create effective technical designs • Collaborate with an agile delivery team to ensure alignment with business needs and technical standards • Support unit testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment, and documentation activities • Troubleshoot and resolve application, integration, and performance issues • Maintain clear, well‑structured documentation for customizations, integrations, and solution components • Ensure all work adheres to Microsoft best practices, security standards, and compliance requirements

Role Description We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Partner engineering team, the group that builds and operates the software powering our relationships with retail partners. This is a senior IC role. You will not manage people directly, but you will lead through technical direction, architecture decisions, and cross-functional partnership. This role is specifically intended for engineers with meaningful grocery, retail, or retail technology experience. Our systems operate within complex enterprise retail environments, and success in this role requires an understanding of: - Retail operations - Integrations - Store workflows - Inventory and pricing systems - Partner constraints You are a builder at heart. You are energized by hard problems in the retail and grocery space, comfortable working directly with enterprise partners and internal stakeholders, and know that the best solutions are often the simplest. You think in systems, write production code regularly, and take pride in shipping software that works reliably at scale. Qualifications - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with recent, hands-on work in backend or full-stack development. - Deep expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript, writing clean, maintainable, type-safe code across both frontend and backend. - Extensive Node.js experience building and operating production services at scale. - Experience building enterprise or B2B software, including integrations with external systems, partner APIs, or data pipelines common in retail environments. - Direct experience working for or with traditional grocery or retail companies. - Strong data instincts. - Comfortable being customer-facing. - Solid cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, and modern deployment practices. - Practical knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, and observability. - Experience designing robust data models and working with relational and NoSQL databases at scale. Requirements - React and Next.js experience for building partner-facing UIs or internal tooling. - Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows. - Familiarity with tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI-powered developer tooling. - Experience integrating LLM-based capabilities into production software. - Familiarity with event streaming (Kafka), job orchestration (Airflow, Temporal), or GraphQL. - Prior experience defining technical strategy at an organizational level or leading large cross-team initiatives. Benefits - Competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits - 100% remote work with flexibility and trust - Mission-driven work that reduces food waste and expands access to affordable food - A fast-growing, collaborative team with big ambitions - Real opportunities for career growth and expanded responsibility