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title: 'Software Engineer,  Frontend and Mobile at Bree'
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# Software Engineer,  Frontend and Mobile at Bree

- **Company:** Bree
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $120k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bree/c7601cde-1e82-4129-a7a7-aa8e05d74daf

## Job description

## About Bree

Bree is a consumer finance platform that brings better, faster, and cheaper financial services to over half the Canadian population who live paycheque to paycheque. We operate in a huge, but overlooked market in a country with the least amount of financial technology innovation in the developed world. Our first act is to become the cheapest and best provider of short-term credit to the 20 million people in Canada who live paycheck to paycheck. More than 800,000 Canadians have already signed up with Bree and we believe we are just scratching the surface. We are in an exciting place where we have product market fit, explosive growth, and a clear path to becoming one of the most important FinTechs in Canada. We were part of [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/)in 2021 and raised a $2M seed round shortly after. Since then, we have built a small, high-ownership team focused on moving quickly and delivering meaningful customer impact.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer with a strong mobile and frontend focus to help shape the primary way customers experience Bree. You will own customer-facing features across our React Native application, from understanding the problem and collaborating on the experience through implementation, testing, release, and follow-up. You will work closely with Product, Design, CX, and other engineers to make complex financial journeys feel clear, trustworthy, and easy to use. This is primarily a mobile and frontend role, but you will not be limited to a single layer. You should be comfortable working end to end across frontend code, API contracts, and backend dependencies so you can own the complete customer experience. You will help us expand Bree across Canada, support new regulatory requirements, improve our mobile architecture, and make releases safer as the product and team continue to grow.

## What You'll Do

- Own mobile and frontend features from product discovery through public release.
- Work across a TypeScript/Node serverless stack (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS) and React Native frontends.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design to turn early ideas and mockups into thoughtful, usable experiences.
- Make pragmatic calls in ambiguous situations; unblock yourself and others without waiting on perfect specs.
- Instrument what you ship (logging, metrics, alerts) and add tests to keep releases stable.
- Improve existing surfaces: refactor opportunistically, pay down tech debt without slowing delivery.
- Own release readiness through staging, TestFlight, Google Play, release notes, smoke testing, and production monitoring.

## What You'll Need

- Experience shipping customer-facing mobile or web products in a startup or similarly fast-moving environment.
- Strong TypeScript and React Native experience, or deep React experience with the ability to move quickly into React Native.
- A strong understanding of component design, state management, networking, navigation, and frontend architecture.
- An AI-native development approach, using modern tools throughout implementation, debugging, testing, and review while carefully validating their output.
- Demonstrate product judgment: you can refine a rough idea into a scoped, high-leverage release.
- Communicate clearly, default to ownership, and stay even-keeled when wrestling with engineering tradeoffs.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Expo, EAS, over-the-air updates, or similar React Native tooling.
- Observability chops (e.g., structured logging, tracing, performance profiling).
- Comfort with analytics/experimentation (event models, simple A/Bs) to validate features.
- Contributions to OSS or public write-ups about projects you’ve shipped.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: 💰Top of the market compensation for top performers ⚕️Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits plan 🖥 $1,500 annual learning & home-office stipend 🧘🏼 $1,000 annual wellness stipend 🍔 Monthly Lunch Stipend 🚗 Commuter Benefits 🚼Paid Parental leave 🏝20 annual PTO days + unlimited sick days 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings ☕ In Office Amenities

## About Bree

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bree is a Canadian consumer finance platform that provides interest‑free cash advances (up to $750) along with a budgeting tool and financial wellness content to help people avoid overdraft fees.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Y Combinator S21; venture‑funded)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also offices in Vancouver, BC; United States; Philippines; Vietnam)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Adam Kang and Alexander Li

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer finance / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C – Canadians living paycheck‑to‑paycheck, especially those at risk of overdraft
- **Mission/purpose statement**: “To help Canadians move towards financial wellness” with no interest, no mandatory fees, and a community‑supported model.

## Products & Services
- **Cash Advance (Flagship)**: Interest‑free cash advances from $20 up to $750, with 0% APR. No mandatory fees or interest; users choose an optional tip. Repayment is triggered on the next payday (minimum 1 day, maximum 90 days). Offers overdraft protection.
- **Budgeting Tool**: Included in the optional monthly membership ($2.99/month after a 1‑month free trial). Provides financial insights and spending tracking.
- **Weekly Newsletter**: Financial wellness content sent to subscribers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 400,000 consumers have signed up since 2021 (source: LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S21 batch), plus other venture capital firms and angel investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 54.2% YoY to 31 employees (LinkedIn). Active job postings increased 140% year‑over‑year. Expanding into new roles across engineering, product, and operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **No‑interest, no‑fee model**: Differentiates from payday lenders and traditional overdraft services. Users only tip if they choose, keeping the service affordable.
- **Community‑supported ethos**: “Pay it forward” culture – tips from users keep the service running, aligning incentives with customer well‑being.
- **Simple, fast access**: Sign up and get approved in minutes; integrated with payroll for automatic repayment.
- **Strong early traction**: 400,000+ users in a large addressable market (20M+ Canadians living paycheck‑to‑paycheck).

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Bree positions itself as “Chime for Canada” – aiming to become a full‑service digital banking alternative. Current hiring includes ML engineers for underwriting and product managers for new features.
- **Growth**: Scaling engineering and AI capabilities (e.g., Machine Learning Engineer, Underwriting) to improve credit decisioning and personalisation.
- **Geographic reach**: Currently Canada‑focused but has remote teams in the US, Philippines, and Vietnam, suggesting interest in global talent and possibly future international expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: “Customer First” and “Trust” are core values. The company aims to replace predatory payday loans with a fair, transparent service.
- **Engineering environment**: Tech stack includes modern tools (React Native, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake, PyTorch). Teams are cross‑functional and agile.
- **Growth opportunity**: Rapid headcount growth (54% YoY) and a startup stage (Series unknown, but YC‑backed) means employees can have outsized impact.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote options – roles are listed as remote (US/Canada) or Toronto/ Vancouver. Flexible working arrangements.
- **Compensation**: Salaries for engineering roles range from roughly $130K–$230K CAD (per YC job listings), competitive for Canadian fintech.
- **Benefits**: Optional $2.99/month membership for premium budgeting features; otherwise no mandatory fees. Perks mentioned: free trial, community support model.

## Sources
1. [trybree.com](https://www.trybree.com/)
2. [trybree.com/about](https://www.trybree.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/breetechnologies](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/breetechnologies)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/bree/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bree/jobs)
5. [ashbyhq.com/bree](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bree)

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