Join Brigit: Senior Fullstack Engineer

Hi, we're Brigit! A holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. With a business model that is aligned with our customers, we create transparent, fair, and simple financial products that put money back in the hands of our members, help them spend wisely, avoid unfair fees and build their credit quickly. If autonomy, ownership, and having meaningful input at the company you work for is important to you, come join our growing team!

Recognitions

• Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work For In New York City Link
• Built In’s 2024 & 2025 Best Startups to Work For In the U.S. Link
• Built In’s 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City Link
• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022 Link
• Business Insider’s Most Promising Consumer Startups 2022 Link
• Forbes Fintech 50 2022 Link

About the Role

Brigit is looking for senior 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.

Team Goals

• Feature development supporting numerous external and internal applications.
• Scalability of our customer-facing applications.

Recent Accomplishments

• 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.

What You Have

• 6+ 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.
• Experience leading teams or mentoring junior engineers is a plus.
• You are a self-starter, self-motivated, and able to work independently and manage multiple projects under minimal supervision.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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.

Compensation

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $165,000 - $180,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Our Benefits & Team

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO Policy.
• 401k plan.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including Wellhub for access to virtual workouts and discounted gym memberships, and Headspace for covered virtual therapy sessions and unlimited on demand health support.
• Monthly reimbursements to use against wifi and cell phone bills.
• Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development.
• Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future.
• High-growth company at an early stage.
• A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start-up work environment with a highly talented team.

Brigit is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breast feeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email accommodations@hellobrigit.com.