Travel Platform Engineering Lead

Brex Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,623 - 213,279; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel domain experience

Job summary

Brex in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Travel group to build and lead a new full-stack team responsible for a part of the next-generation travel experience. You will set the technical and product direction, shipp ing customer-facing features, and cultivate a people-centered culture from day one.

You will collaborate across Travel, Expenses, and Product while mentoring engineers and advocating for customer needs, with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled capabilities.

Qualifications

• Track record of engineering leadership building and scaling customer-facing products, including hiring and growing teams.
• Strong product sense — the ability to make and defend product and UX tradeoffs, not just technical ones.
• Staff-engineer-level technical bar; able to operate at all levels and earn the technical respect of a strong engineering team.
• Strong customer empathy and advocacy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated coaching and mentorship of engineers across levels.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new full-stack team owning a defined part of Brex's next-generation travel experience, growing it through hiring and onboarding new engineers.
• Help define and continually sharpen the team's mandate within the broader Travel group — what it owns, where its boundaries sit, and where it should focus.
• Set the team's technical and product direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs about what to build, in what order, and why.
• Ship a high-quality, reliable, competitive travel product, balancing customer-facing feature velocity with a durable technical foundation.
• Foster a people-centered culture on a brand-new team — one built on enablement, trust, and context-sharing.
• Partner cross-functionally across Travel, Expenses, and Product to align on scope and delivery.
• Provide strong coaching, mentorship, and career development for engineers at all levels.
• Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the team builds and operates.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product sense

Communication

Coaching & mentorship

Customer empathy

Job description

Brex in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Travel group to build and lead a new full-stack team responsible for a part of the next-generation travel experience. You will set the technical and product direction, shipp ing customer-facing features, and cultivate a people-centered culture from day one.

You will collaborate across Travel, Expenses, and Product while mentoring engineers and advocating for customer needs, with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled capabilities.