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title: 'Senior Full Stack Engineer at Brighte'
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# Senior Full Stack Engineer at Brighte

- **Company:** Brighte
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/brighte/181a4529-b6a4-4290-8e92-f1e3f7f2306e

## Job description

## 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 an AFR Sustainability Leader within the Banking and Finance category, and won the inaugural Sustainability Award at the Affies in 2024!

## About the Role

Senior Full Stack Engineers at Brighte design, develop, test, and maintain software across the full stack from polished React interfaces to robust Node.js microservices. We work in an AI-first culture where engineers proactively look for opportunities to embed intelligent tooling and AI capabilities into our products and workflows.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with product, design, and data teams to ship meaningful user-facing experiences, contribute to our microservices architecture, and help raise the engineering bar across the team.

Please note we can only consider candidates who are Sydney-based as this role requires in-office presence.

## What You'll Do

- Design, build, and maintain full-stack features across our React frontend and Node.js backend services
- Architect and evolve microservices with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- Integrate AI capabilities (LLMs, agents, intelligent tooling) into product features and internal workflows
- Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver high-quality user experiences
- Contribute to technical roadmap discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices
- Mentor mid-level engineers and help raise the bar across the team

## What You'll Bring

- ~8 years years of professional experience as a Full Stack Engineer
- Strong proficiency in Node.js (REST APIs, async patterns, performance tuning)
- Deep experience with React (hooks, state management, component architecture)
- Hands-on experience building and operating microservices in production
- Solid understanding of API design, database modelling, and distributed systems along with experience with CI/CD, testing, security and compliance
- Experience in the AI space  building on LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), RAG pipelines, or AI agents and an AI-first mindset, actively looking for ways to apply AI thoughtfully
- Customer-centric thinker who cares deeply about user experience
- Hungry to learn new skills, share knowledge with your team and expand your horizon
- You communicate ideas clearly, especially to those not technologically proficient

What's in it for you?

- Free lunch! Yes, there is such a thing. Tasty Tuesday means lunch on us and great company. From tacos, to sushi, to charcoal chicken, it's a delicious way to catch up, unwind and connect.
- Get social. We host a range of social activities at Brighte. A fan-favourite being our weekly Thursday social event, where you can catch up with colleagues over a drink, snack and a game of table tennis.
- Share in our success. You'll be given the opportunity to join our Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP).
- Snacks galore, who doesn't love that? Our thoughtfully stocked pantry includes snacks to suit your every mood, plus a curated collection of wines and beer on tap for those looking to unwind or enjoy a social moment.
- End-of-trip facilities. Cycle in to work, lock up your wheels and shower in our end-of-trip facilities, complete with towel service and hair dryers.
- Anniversary leave. Your dedication won't go unnoticed, enjoy an extra day to celebrate your work anniversary with us.

Our Hiring Process — what to expect?

At Brighte, we use AI every day, and we hire people who do too. We're looking for people who have lived or are living the AI transformation and will bring that thinking to how they work. That's why all roles include an assessment designed to see how you put AI to work. There's no right tool (we use Claude, but you can use whatever you're most comfortable with), and there's no trick to it — we want to see how you think. We'll talk about this in more detail if you're invited to a phone screen with our Talent team.

Towards the end of our hiring process, we require all candidates to undertake references and background checks, which include a police check, anti-money laundering and bankruptcy checks.

## About Brighte

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brighte makes sustainable energy affordable and accessible for Australian households by providing financing for solar, batteries, electric vehicles, and home electrification through a network of trusted tradies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; last known round: Series C in Dec 2020 led by Grok Ventures)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Katherine McConnell (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services (solar finance & clean energy lending)
- **Target customers**: B2C (Australian homeowners), B2B (solar installers/tradies, government partners)
- **Mission**: To make sustainability affordable and accessible for everyone, with a focus on solar, batteries, electric vehicles and home electrification.

## Products & Services
- **Home Energy Saver Loan**: 0% interest, no-fee loan for NSW households to lower energy bills (funded by NSW Government).
- **Solar & Battery Financing**: Loans for residential solar installations and battery storage through a network of 2,600+ partner tradies.
- **EV & Home Electrification Loans**: Finance for electric vehicles and energy-efficient home upgrades.
- **Government Scheme Administration**: Manages programs such as the $200M ACT Sustainable Household Scheme and $50M TAS Energy Saver Loan Scheme.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~USD $23.1M (per LinkedIn); Total Funding ~USD $434.3M across 9 rounds.
- **Notable Investors & Partners**: Grok Ventures (lead Series A & C), AirTree Ventures (lead Series B), National Australia Bank, Bank of Queensland. Government partners: NSW Government, ACT Government, Tasmanian Government.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Financed over 180,000 solar installations; processes over $2B in finance applications.
  - Prevents 2.6M metric tons of CO₂e emissions annually from funded solar installations.
  - Workforce grew 9.9% YoY (81 employees); monthly job postings increased 100% recently.
  - Expanding into EV and broader home electrification lending.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market leadership**: Australia’s leading solar finance platform with a large network of 2,600+ accredited tradies.
- **Government partnerships**: Exclusive or early-launch partner for state-funded energy loan schemes (NSW, ACT, TAS).
- **Integrated platform**: Combines financing, partner network, and technology (mobile app, data & analytics) to streamline the homeowner journey.
- **Mission-driven brand**: Strong environmental impact narrative (2.6M tonnes CO₂e prevented) attracts both customers and talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth through electrification**: Expanding beyond solar into EV charging, batteries, and comprehensive home energy upgrades.
- **Government program expansion**: Scaling administration of state-funded energy loan schemes and pursuing new partnerships.
- **Platform & tech investment**: Enhancing their decarbonisation enablement platform with data, AI, and mobile capabilities (tech stack includes Snowflake, Terraform, React, Python, AWS).
- **Team scaling**: Actively hiring across compliance, risk, product, legal, and partner success roles (8 open positions as of search date).

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid & flexible work**: Hybrid model (3 days in Sydney office per week typical) with remote options for some roles (e.g., State Manager WA/SA is fully remote). Emphasis on work-life balance.
- **Culture & values**: “Brighter Together” (collaboration), “Raise the Bar” (customer obsession), “Thrive on Change” (authenticity), “Win for All” (startup hustle).
- **Benefits**:
  - 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers + 8 weeks birth-recovery leave.
  - Access to free and confidential counselling (EAP).
  - Purpose-driven mission that directly contributes to climate impact.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack, data-driven decision making, and a strong product-focused engineering team (16% of workforce in technical roles).
- **Career development**: Opportunities to work on meaningful financial inclusion and clean energy problems; growing team with clear seniority progression.

## Sources
1. [brighte.com.au](https://brighte.com.au/careers/)
2. [brighte.com.au/about](https://brighte.com.au/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/brighte](https://au.linkedin.com/company/brighte)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/brighte](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/brighte)

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