Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition

Brex
New York, NY
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Geared toward technically accomplished engineers comfortable with cross-team system design, working in a hybrid New York-based environment with a focus on customer acquisition and operational scale.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of experience in large-scale backend systems and a history of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams.
    — “8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a large product area.”
  • Individuals who can translate ambiguous business goals into scalable technical solutions and work at the intersection of customer experience and growth.
    — “Collaborate with product, design, data, operations, and go-to-market partners to translate ambiguous business opportunities into scalable technical solutions.”
  • Engineers who thrive in a leadership role without direct reports and can influence stakeholders through technical excellence and collaboration.
    — “Proven ability to influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders without direct authority.”

Things to consider

  • Requires three days per week in the office in New York, with limited remote flexibility.
    — “We require three days per week in the office—Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday”
  • Role involves a high level of cross-functional collaboration, which may require navigating complex stakeholder dynamics.
    — “Partner with GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption to simplify handoffs and improve end-to-end customer and operator experiences.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in cross-team system design and measurable improvements in funnel conversion or customer onboarding.
    — “Identify and lead the most consequential technical initiatives across Acquisition Engineering”
  • Demonstrate a history of mentoring senior engineers and improving team execution frameworks.
    — “[REDACTED] a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, improving how teams plan and execute”
  • Emphasize AI-forward projects or workflows you've implemented in your previous roles.
    — “Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the group builds customer experiences, internal tooling, and engineering workflows.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • identify and lead technical initiatives
  • set technical direction
  • drive cross-team systems
Typical background
distributed systemscloud platformssystem design

Skills & requirements

Required

Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsSystem DesignTechnical Leadership

Preferred

AI ToolsCustomer Experience

Stack & domain

FinanceSoftware Engineering

About the role

Original posting from Brex

Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Engineering at Brex

Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.

About the team

Acquisition Engineering owns the customer journey from first touch to first value: helping prospective customers discover Brex, apply, get approved, onboard quickly, and adopt more of the platform over time. The group brings together GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption, with a shared mission to acquire customers faster and deliver value sooner.

We operate at the intersection of customer experience, revenue, and operational scale. Our work improves funnel conversion, reduces time to first transaction, equips go-to-market teams with high-leverage systems, and creates product experiences that drive durable adoption and expansion.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to operate across Acquisition Engineering. You won’t be limited to a single team or service; your mandate is to identify the highest-impact technical opportunities across the funnel—especially the cross-team gaps that no individual team can solve alone—and drive them to durable outcomes.

This is a leadership role without direct reports. You’ll set technical direction, raise the bar for system design and execution, and multiply the effectiveness of engineers and engineering managers across the group. You’ll partner closely with Staff Engineers, product leaders, and GTM stakeholders to shape where we invest and how we deliver customer and business impact.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in New York. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We require three days per week in the office—Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday—and offer up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.

Responsibilities:

Identify and lead the most consequential technical initiatives across Acquisition Engineering, from first touch through onboarding, activation, and ongoing adoption.

Set technical direction for cross-team systems, including architecture, platform boundaries, reliability, and data quality.

Partner with GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption to simplify handoffs and improve end-to-end customer and operator experiences.

Raise the technical bar through design reviews, hands-on implementation, operational excellence, and pragmatic engineering standards.

Champion repeatable, secure, and high-velocity delivery across the group, including strong practices for code review, deployment safety, and operational excellence.

Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, improving how teams plan and execute, and developing the next generation of technical leaders.

Collaborate with product, design, data, operations, and go-to-market partners to translate ambiguous business opportunities into scalable technical solutions.

Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the group builds customer experiences, internal tooling, and engineering workflows.

Requirements:

8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a large product area.

Demonstrated ability to identify and drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution without a narrowly defined charter.

Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale backend or full-stack systems in production.

Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect technical investments to customer experience, growth, and operational outcomes.

Proven ability to influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders without direct authority.

Strong collaboration, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to senior business and engineering stakeholders.

Compensation:

The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

Source: Brex careers

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