About the Role
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. You will work across customer-facing product surfaces and core financial infrastructure, driving architecture, reliability, and execution across the full stack. This role is designed for an engineer who can move between long-horizon technical strategy and hands-on execution, partnering closely with various teams to simplify complex systems, improve reliability, and help the organization deliver ambitious product outcomes.
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.
- 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.
Skills
- Fintech
- Banking
- Payments
- Ledgering
- Money movement systems
- Highly regulated environments
- Large migrations
- Platform consolidations
- Service modernization
- External financial or infrastructure partners
- Integrating third-party systems
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Staff
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 - $285,000
About the Company
- 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 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.
