Brex
Staff Software Engineer, Banking
Seattle, Washington, United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$240k-$285kDetected 19 days ago
Distributed SystemsPlatform EngineeringAccountingLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly.
Responsibilities
- This role is designed for an engineer who can move between long-horizon technical strategy and hands-on execution.
- You will partner closely with engineering, product, design, data, operations, risk, compliance, and external partners to simplify complex systems, improve reliability, and help the organization deliver ambitious product outcomes without losing sight of operational excellence.
- You should be excited to lead through influence, bring clarity to ambiguous spaces, and raise the bar for how we design and operate banking systems at scale.
- This is a broad staff role spanning architecture, reliability, and product delivery, with meaningful opportunities to shape both the systems we build and how the Banking org works together.
- Lead technical strategy for critical Banking initiatives, balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery needs across multiple teams.
- Drive the design and evolution of reliable, scalable systems for money movement, bank account experiences, payment orchestration, and related financial infrastructure.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and accounting to turn complex business and regulatory requirements into durable technical solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, helping raise the bar on system design, execution, and technical ownership within the Banking org.
- Contribute directly when needed - whether through design, debugging, rollout strategy, or implementation - especially for high-stakes initiatives and critical path decisions.
- Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating as a senior technical leader on complex, multi-team initiatives
- Demonstrated track record of leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in a product or platform engineering environment
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to simplify complex technical and organizational problems into clear, actionable plans
- Experience improving reliability, operational excellence, and engineering quality in production systems with meaningful customer or business impact
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams without direct authority
- Hands-on technical depth and sound engineering judgment, including the ability to dive into implementation details when needed
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and helping scale technical leadership across an organization
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, ledgering, or money movement systems
- Experience leading large migrations, platform consolidations, or service modernization efforts
- Experience defining technical strategy for org-level investments that span product, platform, and operational workflows
Skills
- Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets.
- Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
- Engineering at Brex
- Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration.
- It's an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.
Compensation
- The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $285,000.
- However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate's location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity.
- Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Company info
- The Banking org is both a product and platform org, it owns the Brex Business Account product and AP offerings like Bill Pay and Vendors, and the underlying money movement platform and partner integrations that power those experiences.
- Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most.
This listing is sourced directly from Brex's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.