Staff Software Engineer, Travel & Expense

Brex · New York, New York, United States · Engineering · listed July 15, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
8+ years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$240,000 – $285,000
Requirements listed
5
Length
887 words

In the posting’s own words

Travel & Expense is one of the highest-leverage domains at Brex, and it spans several engineering teams — expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls — that have to work as one system for customers. We're looking for a Staff Engineer who operates across all of them. You won't own a single team or service. Your mandate is to find the most important problems across T&E — the ones that fall between teams, the ones nobody is holding — and drive them to a solution.

What it asks for · 5

  • 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.

What the job covers

  • Identify the highest-impact technical problems across Travel & Expense — including the cross-team gaps that individual teams can't see or 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 with 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.

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Security

Words the posting leans on

  • technical8×
  • engineers6×
  • engineering5×
  • expense4×
  • group4×
  • leadership4×
  • problems4×
  • travel4×
  • bar3×
  • design3×
  • drive3×
  • leaders3×
  • office3×
  • operates3×
  • reviews3×
  • systems3×

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