Staff Software Engineer
emburse· Engineering/Prod Dev
About this role
About the Company
At Emburse our mission is to help make our users’ lives – and their businesses – better. We are dramatically transforming how organizations manage corporate expenses and invoices. We humanize work by automating manual tasks and saving users’ time, so they can focus on what matters most – their family, community, or more rewarding work. We help CFO’s give their employees a simple and amazing experience while ensuring compliance and reducing costs. Our solutions are tailored for companies from start-ups and SMBs to enterprises such as Microsoft, Pinterest, Bosch, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Estee Lauder. We have more than 18,000 customers and 12 million users globally.
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.Deep expertise in modern object oriented programming
- Proficiency across modern microservice ecosystem, with the ability to design and review systems built in Java
- 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.
How We Hire We value great candidate experiences and commit to providing a transparent interview process and responsive communication. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a short technical screening, after which interviews are scheduled with several engineers at Emburse. During the interview process, you'll have the opportunity to speak openly with engineers about their experiences working at the company. We're productive with decisions and usually complete the interview process with a candidate within two weeks. Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
How We Hire
We value great candidate experiences and commit to providing a transparent interview process and responsive communication. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a short technical screening, after which interviews are scheduled with several engineers at Emburse. During the interview process, you'll have the opportunity to speak openly with engineers about their experiences working at the company. We're productive with decisions and usually complete the interview process with a candidate within two weeks.
Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the salary disclosed for the Staff Software Engineer position at emburse?
The salary for this Staff Software Engineer role at emburse is not publicly listed. Click "Apply Now" to learn more about the compensation package on their official careers page.
Where is the Staff Software Engineer position at emburse located?
This Staff Software Engineer role at emburse is based in Barcelona. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Staff Software Engineer role at emburse full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a Full Time position. It is posted as a Staff Software Engineer role in the Engineering/Prod Dev department at emburse.
Which team or department does the Staff Software Engineer at emburse belong to?
This Staff Software Engineer position is part of the Engineering/Prod Dev department at emburse. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
How do I apply for the Staff Software Engineer position at emburse?
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When was the Staff Software Engineer job at emburse posted?
This Staff Software Engineer position at emburse was posted on Aug 3, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Staff Software Engineer
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