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Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition

@ Brex

Vancouver, British Columbia

8+ years experience
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Overview

Brex is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Acquisition Engineering group in Vancouver, a leadership role without direct reports. The work covers cross-team technical initiatives from first touch through onboarding and adoption, with architecture and reliability ownership. The role is hybrid with three office days per week and pays $240,000 to $300,000 CAD.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead cross-team technical initiatives across the customer acquisition funnel
  • Set technical direction for architecture, reliability and data quality
  • Partner with GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding and Adoption teams
  • Raise the technical bar through design reviews and hands-on implementation
  • Mentor senior engineers and develop future technical leaders

Requirements summary:

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Technical leadership across multiple teams or a large product area
  • Experience building large-scale backend or full-stack production systems
  • Ability to drive ambiguous cross-cutting problems to resolution
  • Strong product and business judgment
  • Ability to influence without direct authority

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Source and dates

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Employer posting date
2026-09-28
First seen by our source
2026-10-10
Source record updated
2026-10-19

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Job details

SenioritySenior
DepartmentSoftware development
Experience8+ years
Work settingOffice, Home
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
Perks mentionedFlexible hours

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Job description

Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Engineering at Brex

Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.

About the team

Acquisition Engineering owns the customer journey from first touch to first value: helping prospective customers discover Brex, apply, get approved, onboard quickly, and adopt more of the platform over time. The group brings together GTM Engineering, Salesforce, Onboarding, and Adoption, with a shared mission to acquire customers faster and deliver value sooner.

We operate at the intersection of customer experience, revenue, and operational scale. Our work improves funnel conversion, reduces time to first transaction, equips go-to-market teams with high-leverage systems, and creates product experiences that drive durable adoption and expansion.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to operate across Acquisition Engineering. You won’t be limited to a single team or service; your mandate is to identify the highest-impact technical opportunities across the funnel—especially the cross-team gaps that no individual team can solve alone—and drive them to durable outcomes.

This is a leadership role without direct reports. You’ll set technical direction, raise the bar for system design and execution, and multiply the effectiveness of engineers and engineering managers across the group. You’ll partner closely with Staff Engineers, product leaders, and GTM stakeholders to shape where we invest and how we deliver customer and business impact.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based inVancouver. 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 require three days per week in the office—Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday—and offer up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.

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.

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.

Compensation:

The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000 CAD. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. 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.

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