Senior Backend Engineer

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Hi, we're Brigit! A holistic financial health company helping every American 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. We're backed by leading VC's including Lightspeed Venture Partners and DCM, a number of the world's most influential social impact investors like Flourish and Sound, and several mission driven celebrity investors like Kevin Durant and Will Smith! If autonomy, ownership, and having meaningful input at the company you work for is important to you, come join our growing team!


Brigit is looking for a Senior Backend 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) Feature development supporting numerous external and internal applications. The next generation of our product may look nothing like what 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 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. We have fun Data Engineering tasks, automation procedures, CICD enhancements, and availability/monitoring problems to tackle. 


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.


What You Have

  • 7+ years of industry Java experience in full time or internship roles
  • REST based services and API development experience
  • Kubernetes, Docker or other container system experience is a plus
  • Google Cloud Platform experience is a plus
  • Some quantitative skills, knowledge or experience in Finance 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

What You'll Be Doing

  • Reinventing 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
  • 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

Our Benefits & Team

-Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future

-High-growth company at an early stage

-Equity participation

-A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start-up work environment with a highly talented team

-Minimum 3 weeks PTO

-401k Plan

-Paid Parental Leave

-Monthly reimbursements to use against wifi and cell phone bills


At Brigit, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.


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Location

Our office is conveniently located in the Flatiron District, close to plenty of great restaurants and walkable to all the main subway lines.

An Insider's view of Brigit

What are some social events your company does?

One of my favorite events that Brigit has is employee-run quarterly breakfasts. The staff running the breakfast attempt do their best in impersonating a New York deli - making breakfast sandwiches on griddles and pourover coffee to order. We also try to encourage a no meeting and laptop policy during the breakfast hour to spend some quality time.

Jeremy

Engineering Manager

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

Our goal on Data Science is to strike the right balance between helping more users and minimizing losses. Most users need money to purchase food, gas, or even buy a meal. The credit underwriting models we use allow us to help as many people as we can and improve our user retention over time in order to achieve a competitive advantage.

Madhu

Senior Data Science Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I joined Brigit after graduating from college. During my 2.5 years at Brigit, my career has grown in ways I would not have expected. Six months into my time at Brigit, I began doing more backend work and moving into a Full-Stack role. After 1.5 years, I took on the role of technical lead on our Membership team.

Avery

Software Engineer -- Tech Lead

How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?

I'm always available via slack and then I work to schedule skip levels with everyone on engineering, as well as with folks outside of engineering on occasion throughout the month to make sure I have a pulse on how folks are doing. Additionally I try to solicit feedback through our culture & development platform and use that to spur conversations.

Hamel

Co-Founder & CTO

What are some things you learned at the company?

In my time at Brigit I've been able to learn how not to just build a brighter future for others but for myself as well. Each and every day here I have had the opportunity to improve my problem-solving skills, adapt to meet the needs of our users, and provide them the information they need to build the lives they want for themselves.

Ethan

Customer Care Associate

What are Brigit Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Transgender health care benefits
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Free lunch on Thursday!
Company-sponsored happy hours
Happy hours are hosted on occasion
Pet friendly
Brigit's pet policy is dog friendly daily
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Customized development tracks
Personal development training

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