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# Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (React Native) at Forage

- **Company:** Forage
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/-joinforage/am9icG9zdDoQzZQuSvDKMNwsFFJ3e4g3

## Job description

What we are looking for:

We seek an experienced Mobile Engineer with a strong background in building comprehensive user solutions and frontend infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of mobile development experience, ideally in React Native. We will prioritize candidates who have built a React Native app from scratch or who have meaningfully contributed to a production app.

You will lead large-scale projects for our app for EBT shoppers, which allows them to check their SNAP balance, collect rewards and more. You will ship critical projects and establish best practices for frontend development for the team. Your role will include improving frontend infrastructure and tooling, balancing business priorities with user experience and technical sustainability, and influencing our technical vision.

Collaboration is key; you will partner closely with product managers to prioritize a long product feature list.

Qualifications:

- 3+ years of mobile engineering experience building end-to-end user solutions
- Experience in React Native, especially having built an app from scratch
- Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives within your team, mentoring engineers through design and delivery, contributing meaningfully to roadmap discussions, and independently driving complex projects from design through execution

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead large multi-engineer projects for the Forage EBT Shopper app.
- Balance business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability in trade offs when balancing new feature requests and necessary engineering improvements
- Influence frontend development at Forage by sharing technical vision and providing guidance
- Make teammates at Forage more effective through better frontend infrastructure and tooling
- Mentor teammates and others around frontend best practices

Our Offer:

This role is Hybrid in New York or San Francisco, we will consider remote within North America on a case-by-case basis. We define hybrid as 2-3 days in office. Your base salary would fall within the bands below.

- Competitive Compensation:- Senior Mobile Engineer: $185k-$200k base
- Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
- Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
- 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents.
- Enjoy regular team lunches at our New York or San Francisco offices, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
- A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
- A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.

## About Forage

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Forage builds financial and technological infrastructure that allows merchants to accept government benefits like SNAP EBT through a single, unified API.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $40M in June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Payments
- **Target customers**: B2B – merchants of all sizes (online and in-store) who want to accept SNAP EBT and EBT Cash payments.
- **Mission or purpose**: "Democratize access to government benefits" and "feed families in need" by connecting merchants, shoppers, and the U.S. government.

## Products & Services
- **[SNAP EBT & EBT Cash API]**: A unified API that enables merchants to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits online and in-store. Includes POS device support for in-person transactions.
- **Type**: SaaS / API / Payments Infrastructure

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$1.5M (estimated); Total Funding: $75M (as of June 2026 Series B)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mouro Capital (lead in Series B), Nyca Partners, PayPal Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Intuit
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 30% YoY to 56 employees; raised $40M Series B in June 2026; expanding into new merchant verticals; 42 million+ Americans using SNAP creates a $200B+ addressable market.

## Competitive Advantages
- First-mover in enabling online SNAP acceptance via a modern API, removing friction for underserved shoppers.
- Mission-driven focus on government benefits creates a strong brand and regulatory moat.
- Unified platform handles both online and in-store EBT payments, simplifying merchant integration.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the platform to accept more government benefit programs beyond SNAP.
- Deepening partnerships with large retailers and payment processors.
- Building out financial products and infrastructure to serve the 42 million Americans on food assistance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values collaboration, diversity, humility, and "ideas over hierarchy." Team is mission-driven with a strong sense of social impact.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – employees work from San Francisco HQ or New York office; some remote roles available for North America.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Health, dental & vision insurance; home office setup stipend; flexible PTO; AI tool stipend; meals; 11 company holidays; 401k; professional growth budget; co-working access; paid parental leave; commuter benefits; HSA; company equity.
- **Employer Rating**: 4.6/5.0 (20 reviews on LinkedIn) with high marks for culture (4.9) and work-life balance (4.7).
- **Open Roles** (as of search): Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native), Account Executive, Product Lead Financial Products, Financial Analyst, Software Engineer (various levels).

## Sources
1. [joinforage.com/careers](https://www.joinforage.com/careers)
2. [joinforage.com/about](https://www.joinforage.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/forage-payments](https://linkedin.com/company/forage-payments)
4. [jobs.gem.com/-joinforage](https://jobs.gem.com/-joinforage)
5. [builtin.com/company/forage-joinforagecom](https://builtin.com/company/forage-joinforagecom)

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