Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Travel Expense Leader

Neobankbeat; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Brex is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Travel Expense domain, based in our New York office with hybrid work arrangements. You will identify the highest-impact cross-team problems and drive them to resolution while shaping the technical direction across expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls.

You will mentor engineers, raise the bar on design and execution, and bring an AI-forward mindset to how the org builds and operates.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a group.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution without a defined charter.
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems in production.
• Strong collaboration skills; a track record of raising the bar for engineers around you and working effectively with both ICs and managers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Identify the highest-impact technical problems across Travel Expense — including cross-team gaps that individual teams can’t own — and drive them to resolution.
• Set and raise the technical bar across the group through design reviews, architecture decisions, and hands-on work where it matters most.
• Partner as a peer with existing Staff Engineers and EMs across expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls to align on direction and unblock execution.
• Act as a force multiplier: mentor senior engineers, improve how teams design and ship, and grow the next generation of technical leaders.
• Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the org builds, reviews, and operates.
• Contribute directly to the group’s technical strategy and inform where leadership invests.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Backend systems

Communication

Job description

Brex is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Travel Expense domain, based in our New York office with hybrid work arrangements. You will identify the highest-impact cross-team problems and drive them to resolution while shaping the technical direction across expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls.

You will mentor engineers, raise the bar on design and execution, and bring an AI-forward mindset to how the org builds and operates.