Summary
Sam Joffe is a senior software engineer based in San Francisco with six years of hands-on experience building backend systems and product features at fast-moving startups like Brex, Rippling, and Gamma. He helped take Brex Travel from 0 to 1 as an early team member, owning backend integrations, policy conversion, and API migrations using Kotlin, gRPC, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL, and later worked on Time & Attendance at Rippling. A Lehigh IBE alumnus with dual degrees in Computer Science and Economics and a data science minor, Sam blends product-minded engineering with quantitative rigor and experience shipping infrastructure that improves cross-team workflows and CX tooling. He’s comfortable across stacks—backend services, data pipelines, and developer-facing tools—and has a track record of accelerating incident response and developer productivity from internships at Amazon and TikTok to production work. Notably, he moved quickly through promotions and founding-team challenges, showing a pattern of taking ownership in early-stage projects and operationalizing them for scale.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Integrated Business and Engineering, Computer Science + Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Integrated Business and Engineering, Computer Science + Economics at Lehigh University
Los Altos High School
English, Spanish