About Brillian

Owners of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) rarely have access to the expertise and personalized business services that larger companies take for granted.  When SMB owners look for help to optimize, scale, and potentially sell their businesses - their options are extremely costly and limited.

Brillian brings enterprise-grade, tailored business advice and financial solutions to small and medium sized businesses owners.  We do this both directly and via partnerships with the financial advisors who serve the personal financial needs of SMB owners.

We’re bringing the powerful financial services and tools of Wall Street to the small businesses on Main Street - helping them optimize, scale, and plan for the future.

Brillian is a venture backed business with top financial technology investors like Pruven Capital.

About the role

Brillian is seeking gifted, full-stack software engineers to help support and grow our financial platform offerings.  This is a significant opportunity to be a founding member of a growing team and help shape the way we develop, deploy, and operate production quality systems. In this role, your work will make a significant impact on Brillian’s customers, stakeholders, and ability to continue to scale.

Why Brillian?

Engineers here at Brillian love building products, emphasizing efficiency and developer happiness. We deploy at-will, many times a day, coordinated via Slack, GitHub, and Linear. As a remote-friendly team, we will always prefer asynchronous processes. As a result, our morning standup is the only recurring meeting and we Write Things Down™. Through collaboration, we prioritize the best answer — regardless who comes up with it — and believe "done" is better than "perfect."

We want to work with curious, self-motivated engineers who enjoy learning new technologies. So, instead of looking for people with "X years doing Y," we're glad to find those with opinions on a variety of languages and approaches. We're excited to know there's always more to learn; if you feel the same, let's work together!

We're just getting started creating our platform, so you'll have the ability to be involved designing and building from the ground up. We anticipate using technologies like NextJS with GraphQL/Relay on the frontend and having a backend composed of languages like Elixir/Phoenix, Go, Python, and NodeJS. Our core systems store data in PostgreSQL. We deploy on Google Cloud, provisioned through Terraform.

We’ve just raised our Seed round from Pruven Capital, and we are hiring multiple people for this role. We'd love to talk to you!

What you'll do

• Leverage TypeScript+React, Relay, and GraphQL to build beautiful user interfaces and experiences.
• Expand and maintain our backend services (a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, Go, Python, and NodeJS) running on cloud-based serverless technologies
• Create and refine automated AI agent systems written in Python
• Support existing products and features, while helping design and build new ones.
• Collaborate regularly with other stakeholders and partners to solicit requirements, seek feedback and provide updates.

Qualifications

Candidates do not need prior experience with any specific technology - we are looking for candidates who are excited to learn new frameworks. That said, a strong understanding of Javascript and modern browser technology and experience building for the web (HTTP, how cookies work, CSP, CORS, etc) is needed.

• Experience building full stack web applications (ideally for at least 10 years, given the seniority of the position)
• Strong understanding of modern browser technology and experience building for the web (HTTP, how cookies work, CSP, CORS, etc)
• Strong relational database fundamentals
• Demonstrable proficiency and a track record of professional success coding in at least two programming languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Enjoy working in a collaborative environment where engineers are expected not only to build great technology, but also to define project vision, specify technical strategy, and always be learning
• Experience presenting to audiences and communicating effectively and empathetically with clients and other stakeholders

Strong preference will be given to candidates who have experience:

• Quickly learning new languages, frameworks, and technologies (including best practices)
• With relational databases (and SQL) and query optimization
• As a technical leader (team lead or management experience)
• Deploying on and configuring Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud

• Writing production-ready code in Elixir, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, or Ruby
• Developing AI agents and utilizing LLMs for automation

Compensation / Benefits

In addition to a salary range of $180k – $220k for this position, Brillian provides equity grants as well as a competitive benefits package (health/vision/dental insurance, home office setup, unlimited paid leave, 401k starting in 2026, and more).

This is a role initially based in New York, NY with the possibility of becoming a remote role.  We are not able to provide relocation reimbursement or provide visa sponsorship at this time.