Software Engineer - Backend
Software Engineer - Backend
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$ 135000 - 180000
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Job Description
Hi were 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 dont just take our word for it our work is being recognized by others:
Brigit is looking for a Software Engineer Backend to help us scale our nextgen 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. Weve 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 were 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; youll 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 well 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 easytouse 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 selfstarter selfmotivated and able to work independently and manage multiple projects under minimal supervision
What Youll 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 youll 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 APIrelated 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 architecturerelated experience.
The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $135000 $180000. 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 fulltime role which will operate out of Brigits 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
Highgrowth company at an early stage
A dynamic flexible and collaborative startup 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 preemployment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please email
Employment Type
Full-Time
