Platform Engineer , Brigit

$135-180k

+ Equity

React
TypeScript
React Native
JavaScript
GraphQL
Java
Senior and Expert level
New York
Brigit

Promoting sustainable financial health

Open for applications

Brigit

Promoting sustainable financial health

101-200 employees

FintechB2CPersonal financeSaaS

Open for applications

$135-180k

+ Equity

React
TypeScript
React Native
JavaScript
GraphQL
Java
Senior and Expert level
New York

101-200 employees

FintechB2CPersonal financeSaaS

Company mission

To help everyday Americans build a brighter financial future.

Role

Who you are

  • 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

  • TypeScript or other transpile-to-JS languages
  • Native mobile app development experience
  • SRE experience
  • Supporting and building tooling for GraphQL APIs and clients
  • Knowledge or experience in Finance / FinTech

What the job involves

  • 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

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Insights

Top investors

12% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jan 2021

$35m

SERIES A

Jan 2020

$35m

SERIES A

Total funding: $110m

Our take

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.

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