Senior Software Engineer, Back End

Brex

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$206,450 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $178k for comparable roles.

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About Brex

Brex is a financial technology company providing corporate credit cards, cash management accounts, and expense management software designed specifically for startups and growing technology companies. Industry: Financial Technology & Corporate Banking

Brex currently has 83 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 79 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Back End

The Senior Software Engineer, Back End joins the Task Workflows Platform team to build and scale foundational backend systems powering core experiences. You will develop and evolve task orchestration infrastructure, including a multi-channel notifications engine, collaborative commenting system, and dynamic workflow rule builder. Your daily work involves tackling complex distributed systems challenges, designing scalable APIs, and modeling data for domain-specific task experiences. You will also build shared infrastructure to enable AI product development. The role requires proficiency in Java, Kotlin, and Python, along with experience in SQL, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, React, TypeScript, and Webpack. You will own problems end-to-end, providing technical leadership on architectural design, roadmap direction, and mentorship while ensuring high reliability and performance across the company's platform.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and scale foundational backend systems for multi-channel notifications, commenting systems, and workflow rule builders.
  • Design and evolve task orchestration infrastructure into purpose-built solutions for specific product domains.
  • Develop scalable APIs and rule-evaluation engines for custom automations.
  • Model data and orchestration logic for domain-specific task experiences.
  • Build shared infrastructure to enable AI product development across the company.
  • Own problems end-to-end, including user experience, data models, scalability, and ongoing metrics.
  • Provide technical leadership by driving roadmap direction, architectural design, and team mentorship.
  • Identify and implement reliability and performance improvements across codebases and infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and deploying full-stack products.
  • Strong proficiency in backend programming languages including Java, Kotlin, or Python.
  • Experience architecting, building, and maintaining scalable, high-availability distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and optimizing SQL and/or NoSQL databases, including data modeling and query performance tuning.
  • Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL services.
  • Experience with modern frontend technologies and tools like ES6+, React, TypeScript, and Webpack.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and specialists in product, design, and operations (preferred).
  • Experience driving initiatives at a broader level across an organization or company (preferred).

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