About the position
Brigit is looking for a Software Engineer with mobile or platform experience to help us scale our next-gen consumer finance platform. Our product has tremendous traction helping 1 million+ low income Americans make ends meet. We've built beautifully designed, user-centric mobile and web clients with React (including React Native) and TypeScript, and are looking to expand our tooling to accelerate mobile development. As we approach our next phase of growth, we're scoping out new products and features helping our users save more and improve their credit options - in short, better equipping them along their financial journey. You'll have the opportunity to influence the frontend architecture for the greater engineering org to build these new products from the ground up for millions of users. Financial products often come with difficult user challenges, and if you're excited by the idea of reconstructing difficult concepts into easy-to-use interfaces for engineers to consume, then this is the right role for you.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for leading frontend-oriented projects on the DevX team focused on improving engineering velocity.
- Program in TypeScript, React and Java to reduce friction for engineers.
- Work closely with the tech lead to ensure frontend architecture cohesion.
- Identify opportunities for improvements and innovation in our technology and development processes.
- Improve build tooling to help with testing and scaling systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years of full-time experience in the React Native ecosystem
- Strong understanding of software architecture and agile development practices
- Knowledge of software development tools and related technologies, such as build systems, automation, dependency management, and security.
- Up-to-date grasp of the constantly evolving JS language standards, ES6 and beyond
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams.
Nice-to-haves
- TypeScript or other transpile-to-JS languages
- Native mobile app development experience
- Experience building internal tooling for engineering teams
- SRE experience
- Supporting and building tooling for GraphQL APIs and clients
- Knowledge or experience in Finance / FinTech.
Benefits
- 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
