Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition

Brex • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Brex is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Acquisition Engineering team. This role operates across multiple teams, focusing on identifying and driving high-impact technical opportunities within the customer acquisition funnel, from initial discovery to onboarding and adoption. The position involves setting technical direction, improving system design and execution, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will partner with various stakeholders to shape investment strategies and deliver customer and business impact. Engineering at Brex focuses on building scalable systems with speed and intention, fostering high autonomy and deep collaboration across Software, Data, Security, and IT teams. The Acquisition Engineering group specifically aims to accelerate customer acquisition and value delivery by improving funnel conversion, reducing time to first transaction, and enhancing product experiences for durable adoption and expansion.

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.

Benefits

• Global corporate cards and banking
• Intuitive spend management
• Bill pay
• Travel software
• AI-native automation
• World-class service
• Tools, resources, and support for career growth
• Equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed