Software Engineer II, Backend

Brex

Hybrid

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

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This role $171k

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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 30 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer II, Backend

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As a Software Engineer at Brex, you will join the Credit Limit Engineering team to build critical financial infrastructure that powers credit decisioning and risk management. Your day-to-day responsibilities include developing real-time data pipelines for millions of transactions, optimizing the underwriting engine for sub-second latency, and implementing customer-facing features in React/TypeScript. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, design internal tooling for credit risk management, and ensure high operational standards through on-call rotations. The role requires proficiency in backend technologies like Kotlin and Micronaut, experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, and comfort working with event streaming tools like Kafka. You’ll tackle technically challenging problems while contributing to a culture that values excellence from architecture to deployment.

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 financial data collection.
Design and build internal tooling 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 backend software engineering experience
Experience in financial systems or fintech applications
Strong ownership and curiosity for delivering high-quality technical solutions
Proficiency in Kotlin and Typescript with comfort using Micronaut framework
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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