--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Travel & Expense at Brex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-travel-expense-brex-vancouver-skqqdqq2140y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Staff Software Engineer, Travel & Expense at Brex - **Company:** Brex - **Location:** Vancouver, Canada - **Posted:** 2026-07-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://www.brex.com/careers/8635342002?gh_jid=8635342002 ## 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. ## Why join us Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale. 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 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. Where you’ll work This role will be based in our Vancouver 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 will require 3 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: - 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. Requirements: - 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. Compensation: The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 to $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. 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