Frontend Intern

About Bright

Bright is a consumer fintech company focused on helping Americans manage and eliminate debt through data science and machine learning. Its mobile app offers tools like credit score building, automated debt paydown plans, financial planning, budgeting, and refinance loans, covering credit cards, student loans, and car loans.

The company has experienced 6x growth in the past year, serving 300,000 users with over 100,000 ratings and reviews. Bright is backed by major venture capital funds (Sequoia, Falcon Edge, Hummingbird) and top angel investors, having raised over $40 million in funding. Recently, Bright secured an additional $50 million in debt funding from Encina Lender Finance to support its credit business growth.

Bright is recognized among the top 8 US FinTech companies and aims to become a top-100 US financial institution leveraging data science and predictive modeling. It aspires to be the first at-scale Consumer Tech company built in India for global markets.

About Our Founders

Bright was founded in 2019 by a team from McKinsey’s Banking Practice (Petko Plachkov and Avi Patchava) and InMobi Data Scientist (Avi Patchava, Varun Modi, Avinash Ramakath, Jayashree Merwade).

About the Role

Bright is seeking a Frontend Intern with strong fundamentals in web development and working knowledge of React. Exposure to React Native is an added advantage. The intern will be responsible for building responsive user interfaces for both web and mobile platforms, with a focus on performance, scalability, and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive UI components using React for web applications.
• Build and support mobile interfaces using React Native (preferred).
• Translate design wireframes (Figma or similar) into high-quality, reusable code.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and performance (lazy loading, code splitting, memorization).
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and smooth performance across devices.
• Integrate frontend with backend APIs and handle asynchronous data flows.
• Follow best practices for SEO (web), accessibility (WCAG basics), and semantic HTML.
• Debug issues and improve overall code quality and maintainability.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Hands-on experience with React (functional components, hooks, state/props).
• Basic knowledge of React Native (navigation, layouts, components) is a plus.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and asynchronous programming (fetch/axios).
• Understanding of responsive design and mobile-first approach.
• Awareness of performance optimization techniques and frontend best practices.
• Good problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Has built at least 1–2 real-world projects (web or mobile).
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of UI/UX principles.
• Shows eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

What Bright Offers

• A profitable sub-unicorn with U.S. market scale – liquidity potential at $1–3B valuations.
• Real ownership: You run your own BU with an independent P&L.
• Wealth creation: Equity at an inflection stage of scale.
• A data-driven, high-cadence culture that combines consulting rigor with FinTech speed.
• Location flexibility: 4 days from the Bangalore office in a week.