Engineering Manager, Travel
$240,000–$300,000 year
HybridVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Job Summary
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 engineers. Help define the team's mandate within the broader Travel group, setting technical and product direction while making tradeoffs on feature velocity versus technical foundation. Ship a high-quality, competitive travel product and foster a people-centered culture built on enablement and trust. Partner cross-functionally across Travel, Expenses, and Product to align on scope, providing strong coaching and mentorship to engineers at all levels. Bring an AI-forward mindset to how the team builds and operates. This role requires a minimum of three coordinated days in the Vancouver office per week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) with up to four weeks of fully remote work annually.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- Minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
Desired Qualifications
- 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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