Senior Backend Software Engineer (Product Engineering)

Brex; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

Generous vacation

Spring Health & Calm

Year-end company shutdown

Milk Stork for nursing parents

In-office days, lunches & offsites

Commuter benefits

4 fully remote weeks

Carrot Fertility benefits

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Brex is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build new products from concept to launch in a fast-growing environment in New York. You will own problems end-to-end, from UX and data models to scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics, while shaping our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar.

You will work alongside Sales and Support teams to deeply understand customer needs and will be encouraged to be metric and data-driven as Brex scales into new markets.

Qualifications

• Must have 7+ years of professional backend experience.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying backend applications.
• Experience building and designing scalable backend systems.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with software engineering development cycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop new products from concept to launch and own features end-to-end.
• Build customer-facing products that drive business impact and shape technical vision.
• Collaborate with engineers across the company and with Sales/Support to understand customer needs.
• Tune and polish features to a high degree of excellence and maintain quality standards.

Job description

• As an engineer at Brex, you will help develop new products from concept to launch, whether for a 5-person startup or a 5,000-person-strong enterprise
• We're looking for folks with an interest in building products and tools, and who are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces
• You'll be building customer-facing products that will drive direct business impact and shape our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar
• You'll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best financial software experience to help companies grow
• You'll be encouraged to be metric and data-driven and to think creatively to help Brex scale and get prepared for the new markets we are about to enter
• Collaborate with engineers across the company to build new features and products end-to-end
• Work alongside user-facing teams like Sales and Support to deeply understand our customers' needs
• Design and implement solutions to improve our customers' banking experiences
• Own problems end-to-end, from user experience and data models to scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics
• Tune and polish features to a high degree of excellence

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Generous vacation
• Spring Health & Calm
• Year-end company shutdown
• Milk Stork for nursing parents
• In-office days, lunches & offsites
• Commuter benefits
• 4 fully remote weeks
• Carrot Fertility benefits
• Generous parental leave

• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience working with backend programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python)
• Ability to hold yourself and the team to high standards
• 7+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and deploying applications with a focus on backend
• Experience building and designing scalable backend systems
• Familiarity with software engineering development cycles
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills