Staff Software Engineer, Brex
Travel & Expense
$240-285k
Intelligent finance platform
Open for applications
Intelligent finance platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$240-285k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a group
- Demonstrated ability to identify and drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution without a defined charter
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems in production
- Strong collaboration skills; a track record of raising the bar for engineers around you and working effectively with both ICs and managers
- Excellent written and verbal communication
What the job involves
- Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration
- We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It's an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders
- Travel & Expense is one of the highest-leverage domains at Brex, and it spans several engineering teams — expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls — that have to work as one system for customers
- We're looking for a Staff Engineer who operates across all of them
- You won't own a single team or service
- Your mandate is to find the most important problems across T&E — the ones that fall between teams, the ones nobody is holding — and drive them to a solution
- This is a leadership role without direct reports
- You'll set technical direction across the group, raise the bar in design and review, and be a force multiplier for the engineers and EMs you work alongside
- You'll partner closely with our existing Staff Engineers as peers, and you'll have a seat at the T&E leadership table to help shape where the org invests
- If you want the influence of a senior technical leader without moving into management, this is that role
- Identify the highest-impact technical problems across Travel & Expense — including the cross-team gaps that individual teams can't see or own — and drive them to resolution
- Set and raise the technical bar across the group through design reviews, architecture decisions, and hands-on work where it matters most
- Partner as a peer with existing Staff Engineers and with EMs across expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls to align on direction and unblock execution
- Act as a force multiplier: mentor senior engineers, improve how teams design and ship, and grow the next generation of technical leaders
- Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the org builds, reviews, and operates
- Contribute directly to the group's technical strategy and inform where leadership invests
Our take
Brex started its life providing corporate credit cards aimed mainly at startups and SMBs. Since then, it has gradually evolved its model towards becoming a one-stop finance shop for companies. It has also adapted to serve a much wider range of businesses, from startups to enterprises.
As the largest modern corporate card platform, Brex serves over 20,000 businesses globally, and is responsible for the processing of tens of billions of dollars in transactions. It has raised significant capital and reached a peak valuation of $12.3 billion in 2022.
With the landscape of companies clamouring to meet financial needs increasing by the day, Brex is well set to see continued growth. In 2026 it was announced that Capital One will be purchasing the company in order to pursue its ambition to “build a payments company at the frontier of the technology revolution.”
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Spring Health & Calm
- Generous vacation
- Year-end company shutdown
- Generous parental leave
- Carrot Fertility benefits
- Milk Stork for nursing parents
- In-office days, lunches & offsites
- Commuter benefits
- 4 fully remote weeks
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Henrique Dubugras
(Chair & Founder)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.
Pedro Franceschi
(CEO & Founder)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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