About Bright Money
Bright Money is a Consumer FinTech for middle-income consumers. It brings together SaaS products to help consumers build credit, manage their debt, and get access to suitable loans and credit cards. These are the major financial needs of middle-income consumers living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Bright is a profitable, India-built, U.S.-market Consumer FinTech, with revenue trajectory to $100M in the coming 12 months. The business model combines subscription revenue with a financial service marketplace revenues, for loans, credit cards, and credit building tools.
Bright has launched an AI money assistant and AI agentic UX flows for access to credit. It will be the first AI-driven Consumer FinTech for middle-income consumers.
The Bright product suite has potential for global markets beyond the US. The market size is 100M global middle-income consumers, with a revenue pool opportunity of $15B.
Bright is backed by 3 top global venture capital firms, and leading tech angel investors in the USA, Europe, and Asia.
Bright was founded in 2019 by a founding team from McKinsey’s Banking Practice (Petko Plachkov and Avi Patchava) and InMobi Data Scientists (Varun Modi and Avi Patchava). The core team is ex-InMobi Engineering and Data Sciences, recently joined by senior leaders from McKinsey. Bright is a data-driven, fast-paced execution culture that will build a Global Consumer FinTech, all functions operating from India.
What is the team & role about?
This role is an entry-level DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) position focused on supporting daily cloud operations, monitoring systems, and maintaining documentation. The broader team manages the company's AWS infrastructure, prioritizing system reliability, automated deployments, and cloud cost optimization. Ultimately, this position serves as the first line of defense for routine maintenance and troubleshooting, providing a strong foundational stepping stone into advanced cloud architecture.
What you will do?
Support daily SRE/DevOps operational tasks.
Assist with AWS cost analysis, tagging, compliance, usage reports, and optimization.
Help with monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbook improvements.
Contribute to automation work using scripting.
Perform ad-hoc tasks such as troubleshooting, log checks, and metrics reporting.
Maintain documentation for infrastructure,SOPs and any internal processes.
Participate in OnCall duties on shift basis to support infrastructure reliability.
Ideal candidate profile looks like?
Experience & Background:
Pursuing or recently completed a B.Tech/B.E. degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Internship duration: 6 months.
Basic understanding of Linux and shell commands.
Basic coding knowledge (bash/Python).
Familiarity with cloud concepts (preferably AWS).
Good communication skills and willingness to learn quickly.
Interest in DevOps/SRE practices (automation, CI/CD, cloud, monitoring).
Mindset & Operating DNA:
An automation-first approach to solving technical bottlenecks and manual toil.
Strong problem-solving ownership with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly.
A proactive learner who thrives in fast-paced, evolving cloud environments.
Non-Fit Profiles
Individuals who prefer manual work over writing scripts to automate processes.
Those who are not ready for oncall duties
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
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