Brex

Staff Software Engineer, Banking

Brex
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Base Salary

$240k - $285k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy for critical Banking initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Design and evolve reliable, scalable systems for money movement, bank account experiences, payment orchestration, and financial infrastructure.
  • Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into durable technical solutions with cross-functional partners.
  • Identify and resolve systemic reliability, quality, and operability issues while improving observability, incident prevention, and engineering standards.
  • Drive architecture reviews, align stakeholders, and guide tradeoffs in ambiguous technical spaces.
  • Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders within the Banking organization.
  • Contribute hands-on through design, debugging, rollout strategy, and implementation for high-stakes initiatives.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior technical leadership on complex, multi-team initiatives.
  • Track record leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in product or platform engineering environments.
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to turn complex technical and organizational problems into actionable plans.
  • Experience improving reliability, operational excellence, and engineering quality in production systems with meaningful customer or business impact.
  • Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and other functions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Hands-on technical depth and sound engineering judgment, including implementation-level work when needed.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and scaling technical leadership.
  • Preferred experience in fintech, banking, payments, ledgering, money movement, regulated environments, large migrations, platform consolidations, service modernization, external financial partnerships, third-party integrations, and organization-wide technical strategy.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in the New York office with three required in-office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday).
  • Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
  • Equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of the total compensation package.

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About Brex

1,001-5,000 employees

Brex is the intelligent finance platform built for speed and control, empowering founders and finance teams to spend smarter and move faster globally with intuitive corporate cards, banking, expenses, and travel. Over 35,000 companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Wiz, and Five Guys. Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.