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title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Banking at Brex'
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# Staff Software Engineer, Banking at Brex

- **Company:** Brex
- **Location:** Seattle Washington, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.brex.com/careers/8618076002?gh_jid=8618076002

## Job description

## Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. 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. 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. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Engineering at Brex

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.

## What you’ll do

As a Staff Software Engineer in Banking, you will help shape the technical direction of one of Brex’s most strategic and complex product areas. 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. In this role, you’ll work across customer-facing product surfaces and core financial infrastructure, driving architecture, reliability, and execution across that full stack.

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.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our Seattle office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a three days per week in the office - Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities:

- 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.
- Identify and resolve systemic reliability, quality, and operability issues, improving observability, incident prevention, and engineering standards over time.Provide technical leadership across teams by driving architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders, and helping teams make strong tradeoffs in ambiguous spaces.Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, helping raise the bar on system design, execution, and technical ownership within the Banking org.
- Provide technical leadership across teams by driving architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders, and helping teams make strong tradeoffs in ambiguous spaces.
- 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.

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
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and other cross-functional partners
- 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

Bonus Points:

- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, ledgering, or money movement systems
- Experience building systems in highly regulated environments
- Experience leading large migrations, platform consolidations, or service modernization efforts
- Experience working with external financial or infrastructure partners and integrating third-party systems into critical product flows
- Experience defining technical strategy for org-level investments that span product, platform, and operational workflows

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. Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a [brex.com](http://brex.com/) domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

## About Brex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brex provides a modern finance platform combining corporate cards, expense management, travel booking, banking, and treasury services, all powered by AI-driven automation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by venture capital; last known Series D3 at $12.3B valuation in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial technology (fintech) – specifically spend management, corporate cards, expense automation, and business banking.
- Target customers: B2B – startups, mid-size companies, and enterprises; over 35,000 companies use Brex.
- Mission/purpose statement: "Empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions."

## Products & Services
- **Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual corporate cards with built-in spend controls, real-time budgets, and cash back/rewards.
- **Expense Management**: AI-powered automation for receipts, expense reports, and approvals; integrates with ERP systems.
- **Travel**: In-app global travel booking and management with policy enforcement.
- **Bill Pay**: Automated invoice entry, approval workflows, and vendor payments.
- **Banking & Treasury**: Business cash accounts with up to 4.36% yield, same-day liquidity, and up to $6M in additional FDIC insurance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $12.3 billion (Series D3, 2022 – recent valuation not disclosed; may have changed)
- **Key Metric**: Over 35,000 businesses use Brex (source: brex.com). Total funding exceeds $1.5 billion (publicly reported, not detailed in provided sources).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greenoaks, IVP, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, DST Global, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Lone Pine Capital, Ribbit Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Named #2 on Fast Company’s 2023 Top 50 Disruptors; expanding AI-driven finance automation; 756 hours average time saved per year for customers; 71% of expenses prepared on Brex handled entirely by automation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines cards, expense management, travel, bill pay, and banking in a single stack – reducing the need for multiple vendors.
- **AI-powered automation**: Uses AI to automate receipt capture, expense categorization, approval workflows, and GL coding, enabling faster close.
- **Higher credit limits**: Offers up to 30x higher credit limits compared to traditional providers.
- **Founder-centric culture**: Over 100 Brex alumni have started their own companies (4x industry average), signaling a culture that breeds entrepreneurship.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first finance**: Continually investing in AI to eliminate manual work (e.g., AI expense assistant, invoice automation).
- **Global expansion**: In-app global travel and multi-entity support for international teams.
- **Enterprise penetration**: Deepening ERP integrations, procurement flows, and vendor-specific card controls for mid-market and enterprise clients.
- **Cash management innovation**: Offering competitive treasury yields to attract and retain deposits.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “Be the founder of your career” – hires people with “grit, autonomy, and ambition” and supports rapid growth. Values include Growth Mindset, Ownership, Customer Obsession, and One Brex.
- **Remote-first**: Committed to remote-first work, with in-office days/offsets for connection and up to 4 fully remote weeks per year. Employees can optimize time and location.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, Carrot Fertility, Milk Stork, medical/dental/vision, Spring Health (mental health), Calm app, generous vacation, and year-end company shutdown.
- **Headcount**: ~800 employees (Built In), 501–1,000 range (The Muse) with 7 offices globally.
- **Engineering focus**: Strong engineering culture visible through “Building Brex” blog and emphasis on automation and AI.

## Sources
1. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/careers)
2. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/about)
3. [brex.com](https://www.brex.com/index)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brex/faq/workplace-perception)
5. [themuse.com](https://www.themuse.com/profiles/brex)

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