AI-Driven Lending Engineer — Build End-to-End Fintech Tools

Bridge; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Team events

Job summary

Bridge is redefining how businesses access capital in hospitality and working capital, connecting borrowers with a network of lenders and building AI-powered tools to streamline underwriting and draw administration.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will own end-to-end builds, collaborating with product, engineering, and capital experts to deliver scalable systems that accelerate closings and improve decision-making.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including work directly with the people who use what you build.
• Track record scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environments.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Claude, Codex, Gemini, and other LLMs.
• Ability to write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Python.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple builds, from first prototype to stable production.
• Build full-stack systems that deliver real value to lending teams and sharpen how we learn what works.
• Embed closely with underwriting, servicing, and capital markets teams to understand their workflows and guide adoption of what you ship.
• Scope the work, sequence delivery, and clear blockers before they become problems.
• Make smart trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality, and adjust plans to protect the outcome.
• Stay hands-on in the code when momentum or clarity depends on it.
• Turn the patterns that work into reusable tools, playbooks, and building blocks for the rest of engineering.
• Feed real-world signal back to Product and Engineering so we know where our tools shine and where they need work.
• Keep teams moving with clear communication and consistent follow-through.

Skills

Full-stack development

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Python

LLMs (Claude, Codex, Gemini)

Frontend & Backend

Communication

Decision making under ambiguity

Fintech awareness

Job description

Bridge is redefining how businesses access capital in hospitality and working capital, connecting borrowers with a network of lenders and building AI-powered tools to streamline underwriting and draw administration.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will own end-to-end builds, collaborating with product, engineering, and capital experts to deliver scalable systems that accelerate closings and improve decision-making.