Fullstack Software Engineer, Brigit
$100-170k
Plus equity
Promoting sustainable financial health
Open for applications
Promoting sustainable financial health
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$100-170k
Plus equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyday Americans build a brighter financial future.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
- REST based services and API development experience mainly using Java
- Experience building UI/UX for new features from end-to-end using React or React Native
- GraphQL experience a plus
- Up-to-date grasp of the constantly evolving JS language standards, ES6 and beyond (we use Typescript)
- Experience with SQL databases, constructing schemas, performing migrations and writing analytical queries
- Kubernetes, Docker or other container system experience is a plus
- Quantitative skills, knowledge or experience in Finance is a plus
What the job involves
- Brigit is looking for fullstack engineers to help us scale our next-generation consumer finance platform to millions of users in the next year
- We’ve found tremendous traction helping low income Americans make ends meet; now is the time to scale. We’ve built a mobile/web app on React and React Native with Typescript, and a backend of Java services in Google Cloud
- It’s served us well so far, but we need help making it even better
- Feature development supporting numerous external and internal applications. The next generation of our product may look nothing like it does today - and we welcome that! The degree to which we implement new user flows, compute our proprietary algorithms, integrate with 3rd party APIs, store data, and serve traffic will make or break our success
- Scalability of our customer-facing applications. Growing from 100k to 10 million users presents unique technical challenges. The efficiency and reliability of both our customer-facing and internal tools needs to improve. We have fun Data Engineering tasks, automation procedures, and availability/monitoring problems to tackle
- We also have many user-facing projects, including the creation and upkeep of components and libraries, REST API design, testing and QA processes, and CI/CD enhancements
- Our team is small and nimble; you'll be given an extraordinary amount of autonomy and ownership. More importantly, you have a large say in the direction of the company -- both in terms of our technology and our product
- Building a Payments API platform that moves millions of dollars on a daily basis
- Implementing the advanced mathematical processes behind our proprietary risk algorithm
- Normalizing relational database schema to optimize for performance for over 1 million users
- End to end User notification (via SMS, Email, Push) capabilities
- Building internal tools that enable our Customer Support Specialists to help our customers ASAP
- One of our greatest strengths is the speed at which we move. If you want to propose a new way of doing things, we are all ears. If you have an idea for a new feature, we'll be open to it. A new design paradigm? Bring it on
- At Brigit you can enjoy a mature CI/CD platform with automated deployment processes, an easy-to-use local/staging/production development environment, and teammates willing to fill in the gaps. We automate manual things so we can focus on thinking and building something that helps people
- As a fullstack engineer we’re looking for someone with experience owning a feature from start to finish on both the frontend and backend. We don’t expect everyone to know everything in our stack, but having one side of overlap (frontend/backend) that you feel very comfortable with will set you up for success here
- Evolving the APIs supporting User flows to ensure a great user experience
- Optimizing queries and relational database schema to ensure speedy response times
- Implementing algorithms related to monetary transaction evaluation, risk management, income verification, and other predictive models
- Integrating with new 3rd party APIs to serve millions of customers
- Decreasing our customer service workload by building improvements to the product or improving our internal automations
- Implementing interaction and motion design for more delightful user experiences
- Automating visual testing & visual regression detection processes
- Creating new mobile & web clients for upcoming products
- A/B testing and optimizing features that boost our business’ bottom line
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Brigit is an algorithm-based personal finance app that helps underserved financial customers maintain financial health. It offers a raft of protective services including cash bumps to fend off overdraft charges, budgeting tools, and interest-free emergency loans.
In spite of this financially-oriented spread, Brigit has no intention of expanding into neo-banking. This is smart, as it allows the company to focus on a broad range of banner services without stepping into the far more competitive digital banking sector. Brigit has successfully united these disparate features under a strong customer-forward and socially-impactful identity, which gives the company the freedom to expand its services in response to new banking trends without diluting its brand.
It means, too, that Brigit can complement new and legacy banking solutions, instead of competing for space. This careful positioning should shore Brigit up in a sector undergoing continual and swift change.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"I am trusted to work within my scope (and beyond) to iterate as quickly as I'd like. Not only do I get to evolve in my current function, I am able..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2021
$35m
SERIES A
Jan 2020
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $110m
Company benefits
- Medical benefits - We offer top-quality health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and wellness) with options so you can select the plan that works best for you
- Generous paid time off - Take the time you want and need to recharge and live a fully balanced life
- Paid parental leave - Because we know there are no jobs harder than being a parent, we support our employees with paid parental leave
- Phone/wifi stipend - Whether you’re in a hybrid or remote role, we make sure our employees have what they need to work effectively outside of the office
- 401K - Choose from a wide range of plans to find the ones that suit your specific retirement plans and savings goals
- Snacks & more - Caffeine and a stocked kitchen keep us energized and Thursday lunch brings everyone together for a weekly nosh
Company values
- Fairness: Our founding principle is to look out for—not make a quick buck from—people in need
- Transparency: When it comes to finances, nobody likes surprises. With Brigit, there are no hidden costs, ever. Ever
- Simplicity: Finance is complicated enough. Our app is designed to not only be easy to use, but actually reduce stress
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Founders
Hamel Kothari
(CTO & CDO)Former software engineer at Palantir and Two Sigma. Graduated from Berkley with a BA in computer science.
Zuben Mathews
(CEO)Former founder and group head in Strategic Partnership at Deutsche Bank, and managing director at Infosys Technology. Founder of METROINDIA.COM. Graduated with a BA Economics from University of Chicago.
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