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!
Brigit is doing innovative and exciting work, but don’t just take our word for it, our work is being recognized by others:
Built In's 2026 Best Midsize Companies to Work For in New York City
Built In’s 2024 & 2025 Best Startups to Work For In the U.S.
Built In’s 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City
Role Overview:
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.
Our team has two main goals:
1) 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.
2) 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, GraphQL 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.
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 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.
*This is a full-time role which will operate out of Brigit’s New York office, with the option to work remote 2-3x per week.
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
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
The Interview Process:
Technical Interview, Java, Testing and Debugging - 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. In this session, you’ll work with an engineer to test, debug, and fix a faulty data structure implementation.
Team Behavioral + Take Home Project
Team Behavioral -Meet with one of our Engineering Managers to discuss your approach to collaboration, communication, and alignment with our team values and culture.
Take Home Project, React - You will be asked to re-
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