Senior Software Engineer I

Emburse; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of travel and expense solutions. As a software engineer, you will leverage your 6+ years of experience to enhance user experiences and solve complex challenges. Collaborate with talented professionals in an innovative environment that emphasizes quality and maintainability. Your contributions will directly impact the development of cutting-edge technology that optimizes financial operations for businesses globally. Embrace the opportunity to grow your career while working on exciting projects that drive efficiency and foster innovation.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Flexible work

Inclusive environment

Collaborative culture

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience with a focus on quality.
• Strong experience in Python and building REST APIs.
• Ability to mentor junior developers and lead projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop sophisticated software with minimal supervision.
• On-board and mentor less experienced team members.
• Contribute to system design and technical documentation.

Skills

Python

AWS services

Linux

JSON services

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Agile development

3rd party APIs

data processing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

Job description

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.

Emburse software engineers contribute to the development of an engaging and interconnected set of system solutions. As an engineer, you will enhance the experiences of your customers, solve interesting challenges, and design new solutions. Emburse, known for its innovation and award-winning technologies, is strong on engineering. This ensures you will have access to the best and brightest minds in our industry to grow your experience and career within Emburse.

What you will do :

• Technical:
• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience.
• Takes personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identifies areas for improvement.
• Identifies problems/risks of own work and others.
• Understanding of OWASP.
• Possesses empathy with the user of the software they are producing and uses that empathy to guide decision-making.
• Identifies viable alternative solutions and presents them.

• Process:
• SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases.
• Partners with product and analytics and drives requirements that take into account all parties' needs.

• Impact:
• On-boards and mentors less experienced team members.
• Develops sophisticated software with minimum supervision.
• Makes complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations.
• Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers.
• May have a role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects.
• Fixes complex bugs and demonstrates advanced debugging skills.
• Produces quality API documentation and ensures practices are followed.
• Contributes to system design sessions in their area of specialty.
• Expanded Code review responsibilities.
• Performs advanced refactoring.

• Communication:
• Gives constructive feedback to team members.
• Learn industry jargon and business concepts to better understand the challenges our technology is designed to solve.
• Raises roadblocks and updates estimations as needed.
• Ability to communicate complicated concepts to junior staff.

What we are looking for :

• Education:
• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience.

• Experience:
• Required: Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in software engineering.

• Certifications:
• Required: None.

• Required Skills:
• Strong experience with Python in a distributed web application development environment (e.g. microservices, APIs, DB integration, queues, topics, caches, containers, serverless).
• Experience with AWS services and APIs, or equivalent cloud vendor experience.
• Experience working in OS X and Linux environments.
• Experience designing and building JSON or REST services and APIs.
• Experience with source control such as Git.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment methodologies.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (e.g. scrum).
• Experience working with 3rd party APIs, workflow and integration architectures.
• Experience with large-scale or distributed web applications.
• Desirable: Experience with data processing or data engineering, integration with AI and ML services, APIs or models.

Why Emburse?

Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.

• A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize their finance operations.

• A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-world challenges.

• A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that supports your success.

• A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making for businesses everywhere.

Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.

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.