Staff Software Engineer — Lead Scalable SaaS & Microservices

Emburse; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Emburse is seeking a senior staff software engineer to architect and build enterprise-scale SaaS systems with a strong emphasis on microservices, distributed architectures, and cloud-native practices. You’ll mentor engineers, contribute hands-on to critical projects, and ensure scalable, secure solutions across the platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive REST/gRPC API design, and leverage Java in a modern microservices ecosystem.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Microservices design

Java

REST/gRPC APIs

Docker/Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Agile

Mentoring

Communication

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Emburse is seeking a senior staff software engineer to architect and build enterprise-scale SaaS systems with a strong emphasis on microservices, distributed architectures, and cloud-native practices. You’ll mentor engineers, contribute hands-on to critical projects, and ensure scalable, secure solutions across the platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive REST/gRPC API design, and leverage Java in a modern microservices ecosystem.