The Staff Engineer role involves architectural leadership combined with hands-on coding for enterprise SaaS applications, mentoring engineers, and driving technical decisions across projects.
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.
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.
Emburse Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
160 Bloor St., East Suite 500, Toronto, Canada, M4W 1B9
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