Senior Software Engineer, Accounting Engineering

EngineersOfAI; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Brex is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Accounting Engineering team in São Paulo. Build systems that turn Brex activity into accurate accounting data and integrate with ERP systems for reliable financial operations.

You will work across APIs, data models, and distributed systems, collaborating with product teams to extend accounting capabilities and ensure auditability in a high-velocity environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience with backend focus.
• 2+ years building systems where correctness and reliability are core requirements in fintech/payments or regulated domains (e.g., healthcare, legal).
• Strong curiosity for digging d

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the core accounting platform, including reusable records, rules, mappings, and versioned APIs.
• Own ERP connectivity end-to-end with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, and Oracle, including sync and error handling.
• Implement customer-facing close experiences for reviewing, configuring, reconciling, and exporting financial activity in our React/TypeScript dashboard.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Implementation teams to translate complex accounting and ERP concepts into simple finance experiences.
• Design distributed systems where correctness is non-negotiable, making idempotency, reconciliation, traceability, and proactive issue detection first-class parts of the architecture.
• Own problems end-to-end, from user experience and API design to data models, scalability, and ongoing observability.
• Work with ML models in production, integrating predicted GL coding and mappings into accounting workflows while preserving explainability and human review.
• Participate in on-call rotation and maintain high operational standards for mission-critical systems.

Skills

Backend development

Financial systems

Distributed systems

APIs

TypeScript/React

Tools

NetSuite

QuickBooks

Xero

SAP

Oracle

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 Senior Software Engineer on the Accounting Engineering team, you will build the platform and product surfaces that turn Brex activity into accurate, usable accounting data. Accounting is a core component of our product offering and often a strategic differentiator. Your focus will be the systems finance teams depend on to close their books: reusable accounting records, rules, and mappings, reliable ERP integrations with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, and others, and AI-native automation that predicts accounting work while keeping customers in control. You will work across APIs, data models, and distributed systems where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable, while collaborating with product teams across Brex to extend accounting capabilities without one-off solutions.

Where you'll work

This role will be based in our São Paulo 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 minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the core accounting platform, including reusable records, rules, mappings, and versioned APIs that Brex product teams and external partners extend without one-off solutions.
• Own ERP connectivity end-to- end, building and scaling reliable integrations with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, and Oracle, including sync, error recovery, and rate-limit handling.
• Implement customer-facing close experiences for reviewing, configuring, reconciling, and exporting financial activity in our React/TypeScript dashboard.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Implementation teams to translate complex accounting and ERP concepts into experiences that feel simple for finance teams.
• Design distributed systems where correctness is non-negotiable, making idempotency, reconciliation, traceability, and proactive issue detection first-class parts of the architecture.
• Own problems end-to-end, from user experience and API design to data models, scalability, and ongoing observability.
• Work with ML models in production, integrating predicted GL coding and mappings into accounting workflows while preserving explainability and human review.
• Participate in on-call rotation and maintain high operational standards for mission-critical systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience with a focus on backend development.
• 2+ years of experience building systems in a domain where correctness and reliability were core requirements, such as fintech, payments, financial systems, or another regulated industry (e.g. healthcare, legal).
• Strong curiosity for digging d