Software Engineer II, Backend

Brex

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $152,000–$190,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 28 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 27 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer II, Backend

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As a Software Engineer on Brex's Credit Limit Engineering team, you will build and maintain critical financial infrastructure that powers credit decisioning and risk management for businesses. Your day-to-day involves working across the entire stack to create solutions that responsibly extend credit while managing billions in exposure, including building real-time data pipelines, serving ML models with strict latency requirements, and designing event-driven architectures. You’ll collaborate closely with Credit Risk, Capital Markets, and Product teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, ensuring high reliability and sub-second latency for the underwriting engine. Proficiency in backend technologies like Kotlin and Micronaut is essential, along with experience in financial systems, payments, and full-stack application development. This role demands a strong curiosity for deep technical problem-solving and ownership of end-to-end problems from user experience to operational excellence.

Skills

Kotlin Micronaut PostgreSQL Kafka React TypeScript CI/CD Docker Kubernetes AWS Grafana Prometheus Plaid Finicity Teller

What you'll do

Build and maintain critical financial infrastructure for real-time data processing.
Develop and optimize the underwriting engine for sub-second credit decision latency.
Implement customer-facing features for managing credit limits and bank connections.
Design and build internal tools to manage credit risk and handle edge cases.
Work with ML models in production, integrating them into real-time decision flows.

What we're looking for

2+ years of full-time software engineering experience with backend development focus
Experience in financial systems or fintech applications, building regulated industry systems
Strong ownership and curiosity for delivering high-quality technical solutions
Proficiency in Kotlin/Java/TypeScript and comfort with Kotlin/Micronaut stack
Comfort working with databases, event streaming, and distributed systems
Experience architecting, developing, and testing full-stack applications end-to-end
High standards for engineering practices including code quality and operational excellence

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