Brex
Staff Software Engineer, Banking
$240K–$285K
New York, New York, United States +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 2, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Leads technical strategy, architecture, reliability, and delivery across Brex’s banking products and the money movement infrastructure and partner integrations that support them.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and design reliable, scalable systems for banking, payments, and financial infrastructure.
- Improve production reliability and operational excellence; lead architecture decisions and align teams across functions.
- Mentor technical leaders and contribute hands-on to design, debugging, rollout, or implementation when needed.
What they ask for
- 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 a product or platform engineering environment.
- Experience improving reliability, operational excellence, and engineering quality in production systems with meaningful customer or business impact.
- Strong systems thinking, cross-functional communication and influence, hands-on technical depth, and experience mentoring senior engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, ledgering, or money movement systems; or in highly regulated environments.
- Experience leading migrations, platform consolidations, modernization, third-party integrations, or org-level technical strategy.
Pay
$240,000 - $285,000 USD base salary
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