Staff Software Engineer, Banking
brexBrooklyn, NY
About the role
Overview:
As a Staff Software Engineer in Banking, you will shape the technical direction of Brex’s Banking product area, spanning money movement, bank accounts, and payment orchestration. You’ll operate across customer-facing surfaces and core financial infrastructure, driving architecture, reliability, and execution at scale. You’ll lead through cross-functional collaboration with product, design, risk, and compliance to deliver durable technical solutions in a highly regulated environment. This role combines long-horizon strategy with hands-on contribution to high-stakes initiatives, impacting how Brex enables faster, safer finance operations for customers. Compensation / Benefits hybrid work environment 3 days in office (Mon, Wed, Thu) up to four weeks per year fully remote competitive compensation equity potential growth and learning opportunities
Responsibilities:
Define technical strategy for banking initiatives across multiple teams Design and evolve reliable, scalable money movement and financial infrastructure Collaborate across product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and accounting to translate requirements into technical solutions Improve observability, reliability, and engineering standards Provide architectural reviews, align stakeholders, and help teams make tradeoffs in ambiguous spaces Mentor senior engineers and rising leaders within the Banking org Contribute directly on high-stakes initiatives through design, debugging, and rollout strategy
Key requirements:
8+ years of software engineering experience Proven leadership on architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems Strong systems thinking and ability to simplify complex problems into actionable plans Experience improving reliability and operational excellence in production systems Cross-functional collaboration with various departments Excellent written and verbal communication with ability to influence senior stakeholders Hands-on technical depth and willingness to dive into implementation details Experience mentoring senior engineers and scaling technical leadership leadership by influence clear communication problem solving in ambiguous spaces experience with large-scale distributed systems architecture design and reviews reliability and observability
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JOB OVERVIEW
Experience level
Lead
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Occupation
Software Developers
Industry
Software Publishers
Posted
today
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