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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Brex Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $240,000 - $285,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Backend
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-spend-brex-8758265

## About the Role

* 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a 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; a track record of raising the bar for engineers around you and working effectively with both ICs and managers.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication.

## Description

Travel & Expense is one of the highest-leverage domains at Brex, and it spans several engineering teams - expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls - that have to work as one system for customers. We're looking for a Staff Engineer who operates across all of them. You won't own a single team or service. Your mandate is to find the most important problems across T&E - the ones that fall between teams, the ones nobody is holding - and drive them to a solution.

This is a leadership role without direct reports. You'll set technical direction across the group, raise the bar in design and review, and be a force multiplier for the engineers and EMs you work alongside. You'll partner closely with our existing Staff Engineers as peers, and you'll have a seat at the T&E leadership table to help shape where the org invests. If you want the influence of a senior technical leader without moving into management, this is that role.

Where you'll work

This role will be based in our Seattle office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We will require 3 days per week in the office - Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!, * Identify the highest-impact technical problems across Travel & Expense - including the cross-team gaps that individual teams can't see or own - and drive them to resolution.

 * Set and raise the technical bar across the group through design reviews, architecture decisions, and hands-on work where it matters most.
 * Partner as a peer with existing Staff Engineers and with EMs across expenses, travel, policy, and spend controls to align on direction and unblock execution.
 * Act as a force multiplier: mentor senior engineers, improve how teams design and ship, and grow the next generation of technical leaders.
 * Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the org builds, reviews, and operates.
 * Contribute directly to the group's technical strategy and inform where leadership invests.