Engineering Manager, Brex

• Track record of engineering leadership building and scaling customer-facing products, including hiring and growing teams
• Strong product sense — the ability to make and defend product and UX tradeoffs, not just technical ones
• A staff-engineer-level technical bar; able to operate at all levels and earn the technical respect of a strong engineering team
• Strong customer empathy and advocacy
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated coaching and mentorship of engineers across levels

Desirable

• 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
• We're building a new team within Brex's Travel group to own a defined part of our next-generation travel experience, and we're looking for the Engineering Manager to build and lead it
• This is a rare from-scratch opportunity: a large strategic investment, a clean slate on team shape and roadmap, and high autonomy to define how the team works
• Part of your job is deciding what the job is
• The broader Travel group covers a lot of ground, and one of your first and most important tasks is to help shape this team's mandate within that bigger picture — what it owns, where its boundaries sit, and where it should focus to have the most impact
• You'll start with a small existing group and grow it through hiring into the team that carries this part of travel forward
• You'll set the technical and product direction for the team, ship a competitive customer-facing product, and build the culture from day one
• Because the domain is new and the roadmap is yours to shape, product judgment matters as much as technical judgment here — you'll be making real calls about what to build and why, not just executing a handed-down plan
• Build and lead a new full-stack team owning a defined part of Brex's next-generation travel experience, growing it through hiring and onboarding new engineers
• Help define and continually sharpen the team's mandate within the broader Travel group — what it owns, where its boundaries sit, and where it should focus
• Set the team's technical and product direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs about what to build, in what order, and why
• Ship a high-quality, reliable, competitive travel product, balancing customer-facing feature velocity with a durable technical foundation
• Foster a people-centered culture on a brand-new team — one built on enablement, trust, and context-sharing
• Partner cross-functionally across Travel, Expenses, and Product to align on scope and delivery
• Provide strong coaching, mentorship, and career development for engineers at all levels
• Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the team builds and operates