Software Engineer - Mobile Dev Tooling

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 2025 Best Places to Work For In New York City

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

• Built In’s 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City

• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022

• Business Insider’s Most Promising Consumer Startups 2022

• Forbes Fintech 50 2022

Role Overview:

Brigit is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience (DevX) team, focused on building internal tooling and frameworks to enhance mobile development velocity. Your work will directly enable Brigit to scale rapidly, innovate quickly, and deliver exceptional financial products that profoundly impact our users' lives. Leveraging modern libraries and frameworks, you'll create intuitive tooling that improves engineering productivity, accelerates development, and raises the bar for product quality and reliability.

Our engineering team has two main goals:

1) Build products our users use and love. The next generation of our product may look nothing like what it does today - and we welcome that! The degree to which we design and create new features (and even new products) for users, architect our frontend-backend communications, implement design-to-development processes will make or break our success.

2) Scalability and maintainability 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. In addition to creating new features, we have many tasks to tackle including the creation and upkeep of components & libraries, GraphQL API design, testing & QA processes, and CI/CD enhancements.

Our team is small and nimble; you'll be given 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'll find engineering best practices inspired by our experiences at Palantir, Amazon, Two Sigma, a mature CI/CD process, 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 truly helps people.

Our engineering culture emphasizes rapid innovation, scalability, and autonomy. You'll have significant ownership to influence both our technology and the way we deliver products to millions of users. We encourage experimentation and welcome ideas that drive efficiency, quality, and meaningful innovation.

*This is a full-time role which will operate out of Brigit’s New York office, with the option to work remote 2-3x per week.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build and enhance internal tooling and infrastructure

• Identify and resolve friction points within our software development lifecycle

• Improve and maintain core mobile frameworks, libraries, and automated testing environments

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation processes, and quality assurance practices

• Evaluate and integrate cutting-edge developer tooling, including emerging AI-driven development tools

• Lead initiatives focused on frontend architecture, observability, and developer environment improvements

• Foster cross-team collaboration through clear documentation, internal education, and effective communication

• Elevate engineering excellence across the organization

What you have:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React

• Prior experience developing internal developer tooling or infrastructure.

• Experience working on CI/CD tooling or frontend build systems

• Knowledge of software development tools and related technologies, such as build systems, automation, dependency management, and security

• Expertise in JavaScript (ES6+) and familiarity with modern frontend tooling and automation

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

What's Nice to Have:

• Experience with React Native

• Proficiency with TypeScript or similar transpile-to-JS languages

• Native mobile development experience (Android or iOS)

• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs and frontend client tooling

• Interest or experience in Site Reliability Engineering

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.

• Team Behavioral + Take Home Project

  • 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.

  • Take Home Project, React - (2-4 hours total, on your own time) - You will be asked to re-create a simple game of Black Jack. This is an opportunity to showcase your process and approach for creating a working realish-world feature/product in a React environment.

• Technical Interview, Release Stability - 60 mins - You'll be asked to write an RFC in response to a prompt involving quality issues in our React Native app.

• Final Panel Interview

  • Technical Interview, System Design - 60 mins - Meet with an engineer and work through API-related business problems.

  • Take Home Follow-Up - 60 mins - In this interview, the team will walk through your initial Blackjack assessment with you. They’ll review the overall structure, discuss any bugs or issues they’ve identified, and work with you to add additional functionality or enhancements to the project.

  • 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.

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 [email protected].