Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are

At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in travel and expense solutions, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.

Emburse is looking for a passionate software engineer to contribute to the development of an engaging and interconnected set of system solutions. As a staff engineer at Emburse, you’ll work with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design the technical underpinnings of the product. At the same time, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts as well acting as a technical mentor and leader for other engineers.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for enterprise-scale SaaS applications
• Contribute hands-on to the most critical coding projects, solving complex engineering problems
• Drive the design and implementation of microservice and cloud-based systems
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical direction with business goals
• Write clean, testable, maintainable code and elevate team practices around testing and quality
• Mentor engineers at all levels and raise the bar for design, code reviews, and system thinking

What You Will Bring

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years designing and scaling microservices systems
• Strong background in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and REST/gRPC APIs with deep expertise in modern object oriented programming
• Proficiency across modern microservice languages and ecosystems, with the ability to design and review systems built in Java, Go, C#, or Python, and to guide teams in selecting the right tool for the problem.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong cloud-native platform experience (preferably in AWS)
• Proven success building and scaling web technologies / SaaS products
• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), caching strategies, and message queues.
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to align diverse stakeholders.