Staff Software Engineer, Travel & Expense

Brex

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$240,000–$285,000 / yr
Posted
99 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $216k
This role $262k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $193,306–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $262k versus about $216k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 · Staff Software Engineer, Travel & Expense

The Staff Software Engineer, Travel & Expense joins a high-leverage engineering group responsible for expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls. In this leadership role without direct reports, you will identify and resolve high-impact technical problems that fall between teams and across the entire Travel & Expense domain. You will set the technical direction, conduct design reviews, and act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers and improving how teams design and ship products. You will partner with other Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers to align on strategy and bring an AI-forward mindset to the organization. The role requires deep experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems in production to solve complex, cross-cutting problems within a unified spend management system.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Identify and resolve high-impact technical problems across the Travel & Expense domain.
  • Set the technical bar through architecture decisions and rigorous design reviews.
  • Partner with Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to align on direction and unblock execution.
  • Mentor senior engineers and develop the next generation of technical leaders.
  • Implement an AI-forward mindset into the organization's building and operating processes.
  • Contribute to the group's technical strategy and advise leadership on investment areas.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 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.
  • Strong collaboration skills with a track record of raising the bar for engineers and working with both ICs and managers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Ability to bring an AI-forward mindset to how the organization builds, reviews, and operates.

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