Brex
Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$240k-$300kDetected 2 days ago
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odds of building a lasting career here
61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
Level I$137,0931 entry
Level II$165,1312 entries
Level III$193,1493 entries
Level IV$221,1874 entries
This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We operate at the intersection of customer experience, revenue, and operational scale.
Responsibilities
- your mandate is to identify the highest-impact technical opportunities across the funnel-especially the cross-team gaps that no individual team can solve alone-and drive them to durable outcomes.
- You'll set technical direction, raise the bar for system design and execution, and multiply the effectiveness of engineers and engineering managers across the group.
- You'll partner closely with Staff Engineers, product leaders, and GTM stakeholders to shape where we invest and how we deliver customer and business impact.
- Identify and lead the most consequential technical initiatives across Acquisition Engineering, from first touch through onboarding, activation, and ongoing adoption.
- Partner with GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption to simplify handoffs and improve end-to-end customer and operator experiences.
- Raise the technical bar through design reviews, hands-on implementation, operational excellence, and pragmatic engineering standards.
- Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, improving how teams plan and execute, and developing the next generation of technical leaders.
- Collaborate with product, design, data, operations, and go-to-market partners to translate ambiguous business opportunities into scalable technical solutions.
- Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the group builds customer experiences, internal tooling, and engineering workflows.
- 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, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a large product area.
- Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect technical investments to customer experience, growth, and operational outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong collaboration, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to senior business and engineering stakeholders.
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 - $300,000.
- 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.
- We require three days per week in the office-Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday-and offer up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
Company info
- Acquisition Engineering owns the customer journey from first touch to first value:
- helping prospective customers discover Brex, apply, get approved, onboard quickly, and adopt more of the platform over time.
- The group brings together GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption, with a shared mission to acquire customers faster and deliver value sooner.
- Our work improves funnel conversion, reduces time to first transaction, equips go-to-market teams with high-leverage systems, and creates product experiences that drive durable adoption and expansion.
- Acquisition Engineering owns the customer journey from first touch to first value: helping prospective customers discover Brex, apply, get approved, onboard quickly, and adopt more of the platform over time.
- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to operate across Acquisition Engineering. You won't be limited to a single team or service
- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to operate across Acquisition Engineering.
- 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.