Senior Software Engineer

About us:

Bree is building better, faster, and cheaper financial services for all Canadians. Our first product is an earned-wage access solution that allows the 55% of Canadians who live paycheck to paycheck to get up to $100 of wages they’ve already earned for no mandatory fees or interest. Instead of paying interest, customers voluntarily tip us if they like our service, and pay an optional express fee if they want cash the same day.

Founded in 2021 and based in Vancouver, B.C., Bree has raised $2M in seed funding backed by leading VCs like Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, and other top angel investors including executives and founders of Meta (Facebook) and Forge.

What you’ll do:

We're looking for a full-stack engineer to join our team as an early member! You will work closely with the founders, help define the product and technical roadmap, and have large scope in what you’re working on. Given that we are consumer-facing and deal with money + sensitive information, you’ll be building systems where security, reliability and correctness are much more critical versus your average software product.

As Bree grows, we also expect your role to grow in whatever direction makes sense, from recruiting and managing our engineering team, or owning more complexity as an individual contributor. This is a position that will evolve into a real leadership role in whatever direction you’d like to pursue. Come help build and shape the future of FinTech in Canada with us.

Why you should join us:

We are at an extremely exciting stage as a company. We’ve developed a product that has proven demand, raised capital from world class investors, and are looking to hire the core team to scale our business to the next level.

By joining us now, you will join the founding team as our first employees. You will be on the ground floor of an early-stage tech start-up that is inflecting into a period of high-growth with ambitions to launch numerous products 🚀.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity package
• Flexible working arrangements (remote friendly)
• $2,000 annual wellness benefit (on anything you want)

What we're looking for:

• Full-stack engineer with 3+ years of experience as part of a development team
• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Node.js
• Strong backend experience and a passion for clean code
• Capable of weighing tradeoffs between robustness and speed

Bonus:

• Prior experience in FinTech
• Prior experience with serverless architectures and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with AWS
• Strong design skills and a passion for creating beautiful UIs
• Based in Vancouver

Who are we:

Bree is building better, faster, and cheaper financial services for all Canadians. Our first product is an earned-wage access solution that allows the 55% of Canadians who live paycheck to paycheck to get up to $100 of wages they’ve already earned for no mandatory fees or interest. Instead of paying interest, customers voluntarily tip us if they like our service, and pay an optional express fee if they want cash the same day. This solves our customers’ most urgent financial problem, getting access to liquidity between paychecks.

In the FinTech world, this initial product is known as a “hook”. A way to bring customers onto your platform and have the opportunity to sell them additional products. Our goal is to use this hook and distribute a wide range of financial services (i.e. banking, credit rebuilding, budgeting, etc) down the line. The top 5 Canadian banks have an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $500bn+ and we are determined to capture a meaningful slice of that market.

Founded in 2021 and based in Vancouver, B.C., Bree has raised $2M in seed funding backed by leading VCs like Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, and other top angel investors including executives and founders of Meta (Facebook) and Forge. The two founders of the company were both raised in Vancouver and started working together on various tech products as roommates in San Francisco. They have prior experience in investment banking at J.P. Morgan and software engineering at a Series B start-up.