# Engineering Manager, Travel

**Company:** [Brex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/brex)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** engineering leadership, hiring, product direction, Full-Stack Development, AI, Mentorship, travel domain
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Lead and build a new full-stack engineering team from scratch for Brex's next-generation travel product. Set technical and product direction, hire and mentor engineers, and drive high-impact customer-facing features with strong product judgment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and lead a new full-stack team owning a defined part of Brex's next-generation travel experience, growing it through hiring and onboarding new engineers.
- Help define and continually sharpen the team's mandate within the broader Travel group — what it owns, where its boundaries sit, and where it should focus.
- Set the team's technical and product direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs about what to build, in what order, and why.
- Ship a high-quality, reliable, competitive travel product, balancing customer-facing feature velocity with a durable technical foundation.
- Foster a people-centered culture on a brand-new team — one built on enablement, trust, and context-sharing.
- Partner cross-functionally across Travel, Expenses, and Product to align on scope and delivery.
- Provide strong coaching, mentorship, and career development for engineers at all levels.
- Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the team builds and operates.

## Requirements
- Track record of engineering leadership building and scaling customer-facing products, including hiring and growing teams.
- Strong product sense — the ability to make and defend product and UX tradeoffs, not just technical ones.
- A staff-engineer-level technical bar; able to operate at all levels and earn the technical respect of a strong engineering team.
- Strong customer empathy and advocacy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Demonstrated coaching and mentorship of engineers across levels.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Travel domain experience (e.g., online booking / travel management platforms such as Navan or similar).
- Experience standing up a new team or product area from scratch.

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