Software Engineer - Backend

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 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City

• Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work For In New York City

• Built In’s 2024 & 2025 Best Startups to Work For In the U.S.

• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022

• Forbes Fintech 50 2022

• Business Insider’s Most Promising Consumer Startups 2022

Brigit is looking for a Software Engineer - Backend 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 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.  

What You Have

• 3+ years of industry Java experience in a full time role

• REST and RPC API development experience 

• Experience with SQL databases, constructing schemas, performing migrations, writing analytical queries

• Kubernetes, Docker or other container system experience is a plus

• Google Cloud experience is a plus

• Some quantitative skills, knowledge or experience in Finance is a plus

• You are a self-starter, self-motivated, and able to work independently and manage multiple projects under minimal supervision

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

The Interview 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 Code With Me by Jetbrains. 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.

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $135,000 - $180,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

This is a full-time role which will operate out of Brigit’s New York office, with the option to work remotely for 3 days a week.

Our Benefits & Team

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Flexible PTO Policy

• 401k plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including Wellhub for access to virtual workouts and discounted gym memberships, and Headspace for covered virtual therapy sessions and unlimited on demand health support

• Monthly reimbursements to use against wifi and cell phone bills

• Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development

• Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future

• High-growth company at an early stage

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

Brigit is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breast feeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email accommodations@hellobrigit.com.