Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy for critical Banking initiatives, balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery needs across multiple teams.
- Drive the design and evolution of reliable, scalable systems for money movement, bank account experiences, payment orchestration, and related financial infrastructure.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and accounting to turn complex business and regulatory requirements into durable technical solutions.
- Identify and resolve systemic reliability, quality, and operability issues, improving observability, incident prevention, and engineering standards over time.
- Provide technical leadership across teams by driving architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders, and helping teams make strong tradeoffs in ambiguous spaces.
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, helping raise the bar on system design, execution, and technical ownership within the Banking org.
- Contribute directly when needed — whether through design, debugging, rollout strategy, or implementation — especially for high-stakes initiatives and critical path decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating as a senior technical leader on complex, multi-team initiatives
- Demonstrated track record of leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in a product or platform engineering environment
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to simplify complex technical and organizational problems into clear, actionable plans
- Experience improving reliability, operational excellence, and engineering quality in production systems with meaningful customer or business impact
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and other cross-functional partners
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams without direct authority
- Hands-on technical depth and sound engineering judgment, including the ability to dive into implementation details when needed
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and helping scale technical leadership across an organization
Nice to Have
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, ledgering, or money movement systems
- Experience building systems in highly regulated environments
- Experience leading large migrations, platform consolidations, or service modernization efforts
- Experience working with external financial or infrastructure partners and integrating third-party systems into critical product flows
- Experience defining technical strategy for org-level investments that span product, platform, and operational workflows
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — New York
Additional Information
- This role will be based in our New York 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 currently require a 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!
- Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
