BrightScope Careers

Info (for all listings)

• Contact: jobs@brightscope.com
• Location: Sorrento Mesa, San Diego CA
• Compensation: DOE - You will receive a mix of equity and cash compensation and we are highly competitive
• We firmly believe we get the best results with face to face interactions so telecommuting needs to be the exception, not the rule.

Openings:

• Software Engineer
• UI/UX Engineer

Company Overview:

BrightScope (http://www.BrightScope.com) is a rapidly growing financial analytics start-up focused on the massive financial advisory services and retirement plan markets. BrightScope is located in the Sorrento Mesa area of San Diego but has quickly captured national attention and gained substantial market traction because of its prominent role in the national policy debate on retirement issues. The company's mission is to increase the retirement security of America's workforce by bringing transparency and efficiency to the 401k plan market. BrightScope has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, BusinessWeek, CNN-Money, and CNBC. In addition, BrightScope's research has been cited by the Senate Aging Committee in its most recent report on target date funds.

Job Description: Software Engineer

BrightScope needs more exceptional developers to expand our stellar dev team and is hiring immediately. Are you someone who is tired of working for big technology companies where you are buried in layers of bureaucracy, wait months or years between software releases, or don't have any say in what you build? Do you want to get in on the ground floor of a rising data and analytics company?

Do you want to have an immediate and powerful impact on tens of millions of people and their ability to retire in dignity?

BrightScope is full of passionate, smart people that want to change the world for the better. As our products and services gain in popularity, we need more developers to help build our platform.

If you can figure out the toughest problems, love learning new things, and want to play a major role in the success of a growing startup, join us in building something great!

Responsibilities to include:

• Developing and improving core business software assets and applications
• Helping develop critical parts of our analytics platform and client-facing applications, delivered via a SaaS model over the web
• Coordinating with the project team

Requirements:

• 2+ years development experience and an ability to write excellent code using Agile development processes. Python is our primary internal language, but if you're a fast learner whose experience lies in a different language, it's not a problem
• SQL experience (MySQL preferred), with a strong grasp of data modeling in large applications
• Experience with unit and functional testing, and preferably test-driven-development
• A self-starter attitude and an ability to break large problems down quickly
• Extreme attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience working with any of the following is desired:

• Financial analytics/financial math
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Amazon's Web Services: EC2, S3, RDS, etc.
• SciPy and Numpy for numerical computation
• Hadoop, MapReduce, and related technologies
• Knowledge of *nix is a huge plus (we use Ubuntu on our production servers)
• Designing for scale: algorithmic and efficiency concerns, etc
• Parallelized development
• The Django framework for Python, or MVC development generally (we use Django)
• Web services (SOAP, REST)
• Agile development processes
• JIRA or other bug tracking systems
• Knowledge of git, svn, etc (we use git)
• Experience working with automated testing tools in Python or another language (Python unittest, nosetest, etc)

You will:

• Play a foundational role in building the technology that powers our solution
• Start with ideas, design products and features, help architect a technical solution, then build, test, and launch it
• Be an integral member of our team and help shape our future

We will:

• Make sure you have what you need to be happy and productive
• Compensate you with a mixture of cash and equity
• Make great teammates united around the company mission

See contact and other information for all positions at the top of this page.

Job Description: UI/UX Engineer

BrightScope is looking for a UI/UX expert with a knack for design and is hiring immediately.

Do you want your work to make an important impact on the product? Are you someone who preaches the work of Edward Tufte? Are you excited by standards-based web design and pushing the envelope with innovative interfaces? Do you want to be a part of one of San Diego's premier startups?

BrightScope is full of passionate, smart people that want to change the world for the better. Join us in our mission for world domination.

• Designing, developing and improving the front end of our business software assets and applications
• Helping develop the face of our analytics platform and client-facing applications
• Optimizing code for the various browsers that visit our site
• Working alongside the development and product teams

• Portfolio of working samples
• Passion for design and user experience
• 2+ years development experience and an ability to write excellent code using Agile development processes
• Strong foundation in HTML, CSS, and Javascipt (major bonus point for JQuery)
• A self-starter attitude and an ability to break large problems down quickly
• Excellent visual eye for aesthetics
• Extreme attention to detail

• Knowledge of browser idiosyncrasies (even IE7/8/9) and page optimization
• Experience with the Django framework for Python, or MVC development generally (we use Django)
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign
• Experience with unit and functional testing, and preferably test-driven-development
• Agile development processes
• JIRA or other bug tracking systems
• Knowledge of git, svn, etc (we use git)
• SQL experience (MySQL preferred), with a strong grasp of data modeling in large applications

• Play a foundational role in designing our products and services
• Be an integral member of our team and help shape our future

• Make sure you have what you need to be happy and productive
• Compensate you with a mixture of cash and equity
• Make great teammates united around the company mission