Staff Software Engineer: Travel Expense & AI Leadership

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform helping companies manage expenses with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to own Travel Expense initiatives, identify cross-team problems, and drive solutions across multiple engineering teams in a hybrid New York office.

You’ll work without direct reports but will set technical direction, raise the bar in design, and mentor senior engineers.

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 and drive them to resolution.
• Set and raise the technical bar across the group through design reviews and architecture decisions.
• Partner with Staff Engineers and EMs across expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls to align on direction.
• Act as a force multiplier: mentor senior engineers, improve how teams design and ship, and grow 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 leadership investments.

Job description

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform helping companies manage expenses with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to own Travel Expense initiatives, identify cross-team problems, and drive solutions across multiple engineering teams in a hybrid New York office.

You’ll work without direct reports but will set technical direction, raise the bar in design, and mentor senior engineers.