Lead Frontend Engineer

Hi, we're Brigit! A holistic financial health company helping every American 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 Best Startups to Work For In New York City

• 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 Frontend Infrastructure Lead Software Engineer 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, but we need help in making them even more user friendly & extensible.

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.

Our engineering team has two main goals:

1) Ship features 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 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 user-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.

The engineering team is small and nimble; you'll get an extraordinary amount of autonomy and ownership. More importantly, you’ll have a large say in the direction of the company -- both in terms of our technology and our product. 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.

What You Have

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience

• 2+ years proven experience as a technical leader or team leader in a software company

• 3+ years of full-time experience in the React Native mobile app ecosystem

• Experience building, scaling and speccing requirements for GraphQL endpoints

• Strong understanding of software architecture and agile development practices

• Knowledge of software development tools and related technologies, such as databases, operating systems, and cloud

• Up-to-date grasp of the constantly evolving JS language standards, ES6 and beyond

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams

What's Nice to Have

• TypeScript or other compile-to-JS languages

• Full Stack/Backend experience (esp. in Java)

• Knowledge or experience in Finance

What You'll Be Doing

• Responsible for leading the Frontend Engineering Infrastructure team, managing projects, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time and with high quality

• Program in TypeScript, React and Java to provide technical guidance and lead the team by example

• Work closely with other tech leads to ensure frontend architecture cohesion

• Identify opportunities for improvements and innovation in our technology and development processes

• Provide training and mentoring for team members in technical areas and leadership skills

• Define and uphold best practices around code quality, strong typing and API design

• Unifying our component and styling libraries to be shared across our mobile and web clients

The Interview Process (2 - 3 weeks total)

Get to Know You - 30 mins - 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. 

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. More information will be sent via email.

Project Review - 45 mins - Meet with members of the team to explain your Take Home project in deeper detail, do some debugging, and add some functionality. Why did you make the decisions you did? What challenges did you run into?

FINAL:

Technical Interview, Architecture - 45 mins - Meet with a senior member of our team and be prepared to discuss your experience in greater detail than the intro round with Talent. You will be asked to walk through your architecture/end-to-end experience. Please prepare to share concrete examples of past projects. 

Behavioral - 45 mins - Meet with the hiring manager to discuss your leadership experience.

React Technical - 45 mins - Your chance to meet with a member of our team to showcase your technical react skills while working on a real-world scenario.

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $140,000 - $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

• Equity participation

• Flexible PTO Policy

• 401k plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• 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.