Software Engineer II, Activation at Brex

Why join us

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.

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.

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer on our Activation team, you will work across the entire Brex stack to build solutions that will quickly and efficiently get credit and risk-worthy customers through the onboarding and activation funnel while decreasing time-to-ramp for new customers.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our São Paulo 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 minimum of two coordinated days in the office per week, Wednesday and Thursday. Starting February 2, 2026, 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.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with engineers across the company to build new features and products end-to-end.

Work alongside user-facing teams like Sales and Support to deeply understand our customers' needs.

Design and implement solutions to improve our customers' banking experiences.

Own problems end-to-end, from user experience and data models to scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics.

Tune and polish features to a high degree of excellence.

Requirements:

4+ years of full-time experience with a focus on Backend development

Experience architecting, developing, and testing client-side code end-to-end.

A high bar for engineering standards and a willingness to learn.

Strong written and verbal English communication and interpersonal abilities

Strong curiosity for digging deep into the technical problems, and strong ownership capable of delivering high quality solutions

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.

Software Engineer II, Activation

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