Senior Software Engineer, Brigit
Payments
$165-180k
2-3 days a week in office
Promoting sustainable financial health
Open for applications
Promoting sustainable financial health
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$165-180k
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyday Americans build a brighter financial future.
Role
Who you are
- If autonomy, ownership, and having meaningful input at the company you work for is important to you, come join our growing team!
- 6+ years of industry Java experience
- Experience in the US financial tech space, such ACH and Card money movement
- Experience with bank aggregators such as Plaid a plus
- REST based services and API development experience
- Kubernetes, Docker or other container system experience is a plus
- Google Cloud Platform experience is a plus
- You are a self-starter, self-motivated, are able to work independently and manage multiple projects under minimal supervision
- Experienced with SQL (particularly Postgres), designing and migrating schemas, and writing analytical queries
- 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 the job involves
- Brigit is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us scale our next-gen consumer finance platform to millions of users in the next year
- Our product has tremendous traction helping low income Americans make ends meet and now is the time to scale
- We’ve built a stack of Java microservices in Google Cloud which has served us well thus far, but we need help in making it even better
- Our team has two main goals:
- 1) Payments: Build upon and support the payment rails used by feature teams within the org, ensuring payment reliability, speed, tracing, and reconciliation
- 2) Banking: Scale the underlying bank connectivity used for underwriting by millions of users
- Our team is small and nimble; you'll get 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
- Recent accomplishments of our team are:
- 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 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. A new design paradigm? Bring it on
- At Brigit you can enjoy a mature CICD 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
- Reinventing the APIs supporting User flows to ensure a great user experience
- Supporting engineers in other pods that utilize our banking / payments rails
- 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
- Converting some of our existing services to the next level by being highly available
- 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
Application process
- Get to Know You - 30 mins - Intro call. Come prepared to answer a few questions relevant to your experience, interests, and the role at Brigit. This helps us get to know you better and go beyond your resume or other application materials
- Technical Interview, Java- 60 mins - Pair program with an engineer using HackerRank. This interview will be in Java and is an exercise meant to show off your fundamental coding skills. It will be mainly focused on control flow and state management
- Technical Interview, Java, Testing and Debugging - 60 mins - In this session, you’ll work with an engineer to test, debug, and fix a faulty data structure implementation
- Final Panel Interview
- Technical Interview, System Design - 60 mins -You guessed it! Meet with an engineer and work through API-related business problems
- Team Behavioral - 60 mins - Meet with one of our Engineering Managers to discuss your approach to collaboration, communication, and alignment with our team values and culture
- Technical Interview, Service Architecture - 60 mins - Meet with one last engineer for a conversational interview around your architecture-related experience
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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 HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
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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