Forge is a twelve-week engineering residency for people who want to write software that matters. No lectures. No busy work. You build alongside staff engineers from Stripe, Linear, and Figma — and leave with three production projects in your name.
Every phase is a real project with real stakes. You'll pair with staff engineers, code-review each other's pull requests, and ship to production on a rolling schedule.
Start at the metal. Memory, networking, concurrency, and data structures — the mental models that separate working code from resilient systems. Culminates in a multi-threaded HTTP server built from scratch.
Build a full-stack product end-to-end, solo. Design the schema, write the API, ship the UI, instrument the metrics. Ship it to real users and iterate based on data, not opinions.
Take a product to one million synthetic users. Learn to find the bottleneck, kill it, and measure the win. Distributed systems, caching, queues, and the discipline of staged rollouts.
Form a team of three. Pick a problem worth solving. Ship a product that real humans will pay for. Demo day is the final exam — and the first interview for forty hiring partners.
The bootcamp ends on a Friday. Most residents have a signed offer by the following Wednesday. Here's what our last three cohorts did next.
We pick residents who know how to write. Here's what they say when we ask them to describe the twelve weeks.
“Forge is the first place I've been where nobody pretends engineering is easy. You ship something hard every week, you get torn apart in review, you get better. I learned more in twelve weeks than in three years at my old job.”
Applications for Cohort 14 close on April 28. The form takes about fifteen minutes. No essays about your passion — just a short writing sample and a small coding challenge.