Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition

Brex•Seattle, WA

2d•$240,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Brex is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to operate across Acquisition Engineering. This role is a leadership position without direct reports, focused on identifying and driving high-impact technical opportunities across the customer acquisition funnel. The engineer will set technical direction, improve system design and execution, and multiply the effectiveness of engineers and managers within the group. They will collaborate with staff engineers, product leaders, and go-to-market stakeholders to shape investment and delivery of customer and business impact.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a large product area.
Demonstrated ability to identify and drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution without a narrowly defined charter.
Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale backend or full-stack systems in production.
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect technical investments to customer experience, growth, and operational outcomes.
Proven ability to influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
Strong collaboration, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to senior business and engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Identify and lead the most consequential technical initiatives across Acquisition Engineering, from first touch through onboarding, activation, and ongoing adoption.
Set technical direction for cross-team systems, including architecture, platform boundaries, reliability, and data quality.
Partner with GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption to simplify handoffs and improve end-to-end customer and operator experiences.
Raise the technical bar through design reviews, hands-on implementation, operational excellence, and pragmatic engineering standards.
Champion repeatable, secure, and high-velocity delivery across the group, including strong practices for code review, deployment safety, and operational excellence.
Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, improving how teams plan and execute, and developing the next generation of technical leaders.
Collaborate with product, design, data, operations, and go-to-market partners to translate ambiguous business opportunities into scalable technical solutions.
Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the group builds customer experiences, internal tooling, and engineering workflows.