Staff Software Engineer (Banking)
Company: Brex
Location: New York, New York, United States
Salary: $240k - $285k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-06
About this role
- As a Staff Software Engineer in Banking, you will help shape the technical direction of one of Brex’s most strategic and complex product areas
- The Banking org is both a product and platform org, it owns the Brex Business Account product and AP offerings like Bill Pay and Vendors, and the underlying money movement platform and partner integrations that power those experiences
- In this role, you’ll work across customer-facing product surfaces and core financial infrastructure, driving architecture, reliability, and execution across that full stack
- You will partner closely with engineering, product, design, data, operations, risk, compliance, and external partners to simplify complex systems, improve reliability, and help the organization deliver ambitious product outcomes without losing sight of operational excellence
- This is a broad staff role spanning architecture, reliability, and product delivery, with meaningful opportunities to shape both the systems we build and how the Banking org works together
- Lead technical strategy for critical Banking initiatives, balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery needs across multiple teams
- Drive the design and evolution of reliable, scalable systems for money movement, bank account experiences, payment orchestration, and related financial infrastructure
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and accounting to turn complex business and regulatory requirements into durable technical solutions
- Identify and resolve systemic reliability, quality, and operability issues, improving observability, incident prevention, and engineering standards over time. Provide technical leadership across teams by driving architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders, and helping teams make strong tradeoffs in ambiguous spaces.Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, helping raise the bar on system design, execution, and technical ownership within the Banking org
- Pro...