Platform Engineer , Brigit

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of full-time experience in the React Native ecosystem
• Strong understanding of software architecture and agile development practices
• Knowledge of software development tools and related technologies, such as build systems, automation, dependency management, and security
• Up-to-date grasp of the constantly evolving JS language standards, ES6 and beyond
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams
• Experience building internal tooling for engineering teams

Desirable

• Brigit is looking for a Software Engineer with mobile or platform experience to help us scale our next-gen consumer finance platform
• Our product has tremendous traction helping 1 million+ low income Americans make ends meet
• We’ve built beautifully designed, user-centric mobile and web clients with React (including React Native) and TypeScript, and are looking to expand our tooling to accelerate mobile development
• As we approach our next phase of growth, we're scoping out new products and features helping our users save more and improve their credit options - in short, better equipping them along their financial journey
• You'll have the opportunity to influence the frontend architecture for the greater engineering org to build these new products from the ground up for millions of users
• Financial products often come with difficult user challenges, and if you're excited by the idea of reconstructing difficult concepts into easy-to-use interfaces for engineers to consume, then this is the right role for you
• Build products our users use and love
• The next generation of our product may look nothing like what it does today - and we welcome that!
• The degree to which we design and create new features (and even new products) for users, architect our frontend-backend communications, implement design-to-development processes will make or break our success
• Scalability and maintainability of our user-facing applications
• Growing from 100k users to 10 million presents unique technical challenges
• Because we’re growing so quickly, the efficiency and reliability of both our customer facing and internal tools needs to improve
• In addition to creating new features, we have many tasks to tackle including the creation and upkeep of components & libraries, GraphQL API design, testing & QA processes, and CI/CD enhancements
• The engineering team is small and nimble; you'll get an extraordinary amount of autonomy and ownership
• More importantly, you’ll have a large say in the direction of the company -- both in terms of our technology and our product
• One of our greatest strengths is the speed with which we can 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
• Responsible for leading frontend-oriented projects on the DevX team focused on improving engineering velocity
• Program in TypeScript, React and Java to reduce friction for engineers
• Work closely with the tech lead to ensure frontend architecture cohesion
• Identify opportunities for improvements and innovation in our technology and development processes
• Improve build tooling to help with testing and scaling systems