Who you are

- 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

- Solid 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 involves

- 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

- 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

- This is a leadership role without direct reports. You'll set technical direction across the group,



raise the bar in design and review, and be a force multiplier for the engineers and EMs you work alongside

- You'll partner closely with our existing Staff Engineers as peers, and you'll have a seat at the T&E; leadership table to help shape where the org invests. If you want the influence of a senior technical leader without moving into management, this is that role

- 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

Benefits

- Medical, dental & vision

- Spring Health & Calm

- Generous vacation
- Year-end company shutdown

- Generous parental leave

- Carrot Fertility benefits
- Milk Stork for nursing parents

- In-office days, lunches & offsites

- Commuter benefits
- 4 fully remote weeks

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Vancouver)
🏢 Brex
📍 Vancouver