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

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