Platform Engineer, Brex

Application Infrastructure

$152-190k

GraphQL
Kotlin
Bazel
Mid and Senior level
New York

More information about location

2 days a week in office

Brex

All-in-one finance for business

Open for applications

Brex

All-in-one finance for business

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsFinancial ServicesSaaS

Open for applications

$152-190k

GraphQL
Kotlin
Bazel
Mid and Senior level
New York

More information about location

2 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsFinancial ServicesSaaS

Company mission

To empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions.

Role

Who you are

  • You’ll need to be comfortable regularly working on complex systems across multiple programming languages and levels of abstraction
  • 3+ years of professional experience in a platform engineering role
  • Kotlin or Golang fluency
  • Kubernetes familiarity
  • Platform or Full-Stack development background
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and project planning skills
  • Must be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday

Desirable

  • GraphQL experience, especially familiarity with Federated GraphQL
  • Experience working with Bazel; bonus points if you’ve written rules or maintained Bazel as a platform
  • Extensive experience with other multi-language build systems
  • Experience extending Jetbrains IDEs

What the job involves

  • The Engineering team includes Data, IT, Security, and Software, and is responsible for building innovative products and infrastructure for both internal and external users
  • We have multiple autonomous and collaborative teams who are eager to learn, teach, and constantly improve how things work. Together, we strive to build robust and scalable systems that enable Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential
  • The Application Infrastructure team sits in the Infrastructure group alongside Release Infrastructure and Cloud Infrastructure. We simplify writing code for every product developer at Brex
  • As an engineer on the Application Infrastructure team you will build and own a suite of platforms and tools that Product Engineers use to deliver quality software solutions quickly
  • You’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of technologies enabling remote development environments, pre-merge testing, Brex-wide dependency management, fast Kotlin builds, developer CLIs, federated GraphQL APIs, and more
  • You’ll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best financial software experience to help companies grow. You’ll be encouraged to be metric and data-driven and to think creatively to help Brex scale into new markets and verticals
  • Analyze internal developer experience feedback to advocate for and iterate on developer platforms
  • Own and maintain critical API infrastructure serving all of Brex’s frontends
  • Upgrade critical shared library dependencies in our Kotlin stack
  • Identify and implement reliability and performance improvements
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounter

Our take

Brex started its life focused on providing credit cards aimed mainly at startups and SMBs, but has gradually evolved its model with the aim of serving as a one-stop finance shop for companies. With 1,000s of software integrations, Brex is the largest modern corporate card platform, helping businesses scale and fuel growth.

Brex has adapted to the changing market by expanding the size of the businesses it serves, now covering all companies from startups to enterprises. It's over 20,000 customers are based in 100+ countries, resulting in the company processing tens of billions of dollars in transactions.

The company has raised significant capital, most prominently a debt financing round of $260 million in 2024, and reached a valuation of $12.3 billion in 2022. With the landscape of companies clamoring to meet financial needs increasing by the day, Brex is well set to see continued growth.

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Freddie

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Insights

Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

3% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Growing fast

"This is a rocket ship! I have been a part of several fast growing companies, but never this fast. Every month or so, there seems to be something new..."

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Oct 2021

$300m

SERIES D

Apr 2021

$425m

SERIES D

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

  • Company equity
  • Parental leave
  • Health, dental & vision insurance
  • Generous PTO if full-time + paid holidays
  • Company-wide weeks off
  • Remote-first team
  • Company offsites
  • Monthly remote stipend
  • One-time office setup budget

Company values

  • Dream Big - Every big win starts the same way: aiming higher than we think is possible and working backwards from there
  • One Brex - We focus on what unites us
  • Inspire Customer Love - When customers and those around us love what we do and advocate on our behalf, out potential is unbounded
  • Ownership - We take our results personally, and we deliver at the highest standards, with integrity, despite the odds
  • Growth mindset - We have the discipline to seek the truth, humility to know we can improve, and curiosity to learn
  • Impatient optimism - The future will be great, and we want to get there fast. We move with urgency and a positive attitude

Company HQ

Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

After a degree at Stanford, Henrique worked as a Developer at Cronus Emulator, Ingresse, and Views for a combined 2 years. He founded Estudar nos EUA, EduqueMe, and Pagar.me before leveraging this startup experience to co-found Brex in March 2017.

After a degree at Stanford, Pedro worked as a Software Engineer before founding Pager.me, an online payments company. He left the company in 2017 to co-found Brex.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Brex

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Brandon Sidney (Manager, Culture Programs)

  • Brex prides itself on creating a culture of inclusion that celebrates the diversity it naturally attracts. Rather than minimize our differences, we applaud them for the richness they add to our workforce and our ability to make informed decisions. Brex employees represent more than 40 nationalities and speak more than 30 languages, resulting in an elaborate backdrop against which individuals grow and thrive
  • Relying on a range of talents, interests, perspectives, and backgrounds -- and united by a common mission -- employees are encouraged to reach across perceived boundaries to collaborate and solve complex problems. Brex’s success relies on the wide range of perspectives and ideas available to teams and decision-makers
  • Featuring an intense customer focus and unrivaled global ambition, we created a culture where every voice has a platform, regardless of background or origin
  • When we made the decision to embrace a “remote-first” culture, it gave us the opportunity to reimagine how we do things from the ground up, and that includes our approach to diversity. We are erasing the muscle memory of how a company traditionally operates. In its place, we’re building a culture of connection, inclusion, and transparency, where everyone is on an equal footing regardless of where they live
  • Our company culture survey results show that 91% of the company believes Brex is an inclusive place to work, and 89% believe Brex values diversity – both of which reflect highly on our commitment to diversity
  • Diversity is more than just a number. It’s also about the way that we invest in our culture and communities at Brex. With our investment in connection, we embrace our company value of One Brex and weave diversity into everything we do as a culture and a company

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