Junior Developer

About Brighte

Our mission is to make consumer energy resources (CER) affordable and accessible for everyone.

Brighte is building the platform to enable and accelerate the energy transition by making it affordable, easy and less risky to buy and sell energy equipment.

Our founder and CEO, Katherine McConnell, has been awarded Telstra Businesswoman of the year in 2020 as well as winning the Sustainability Crusader award at B&T's 2023 Women Leading Tech Awards. She is a passionate and humble leader who has a human first approach to business.

As a business in 2025, we have been named a AFR Sustainability Leader within the Banking and Finance category and won the inaugural Sustainability Award at the Affies in 2024!

About the Role

This is an early-career role for a developer who has started their professional journey in an AI-first world and wants to grow as an engineer at a fintech that is genuinely embedding AI into everything it builds.

You will pair closely with senior engineers across our React frontend and Node.js backend services, ship real features to production, and use AI tools (LLMs, coding assistants, agents) as a natural part of how you work. We are not looking for someone who already knows everything.

We are looking for someone curious, hungry to learn, and excited about building software in a team where AI is part of the toolkit from day one. 

What You'll Do

• Work within an established VB and C# codebase to investigate, troubleshoot, and implement changes. You'll develop a thorough understanding of the system's architecture and data model over time.
• Write and optimise SQL queries to extract and validate financial data, supporting investigations and reporting requests from Finance and Operations. You'll identify data integrity issues and work with the team to resolve them.
• Review the system from a user perspective to understand how business teams operate day-to-day, translating that into meaningful technical improvements. You'll ask "why" as much as "how."
• Write clear, maintainable documentation of system behaviour, business logic, and investigation findings. Good documentation is part of the job here, not an afterthought.
• Actively build knowledge of financial concepts including lending, payments, and reconciliation, and surface problems you find, not just the ones you're assigned. As Brighte embraces AI tooling, this role will grow with it.

What You’ll Bring

• 1-2 years of professional software development experience (internships, bootcamps, open source, or significant personal projects count)
• Working knowledge of at least one of JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, or Python
• Exposure to React or a similar modern frontend framework, and comfort with HTML and CSS
• Basic understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL or NoSQL), and version control with Git
• Practical experience using AI tools in your work: AI coding assistants (such as Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code), prompt design, or basic LLM API integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar)
• A computer science, software engineering, or related technical background, or equivalent self-taught experience
• Bonus: A side project, hackathon entry, or learning project that uses LLMs, RAG, or AI agents in a non-trivial way
• Bonus: Any exposure to cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD pipelines, or automated testing

Our hiring process

We use AI every day at Brighte, and we hire people who do too. Every role includes an  assessment that shows us how you put AI to work, use whatever tool you're most comfortable with, there's no trick to it.

Background and reference checks (police, AML, bankruptcy) come towards the end. We use AI in parts of our recruitment process, but final decisions are made by humans.

What's in it for you

• Hybrid working. 3 days in office, 2 from home.
• We love our Socials - lunches, drinks, snacks, table tennis, a properly stocked pantry, and the company of people you actually like.
• Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP). Share in Brighte's success.
• End-of-trip facilities for cyclists, including showers and towel service.
• Anniversary leave. An extra day off each year to mark your time with us.