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Emburse

Senior Software Engineer I

Barcelona
Level
Senior
Work type
Hybrid · Barcelona

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 16 September 2026.

About the role

Who We Are:

Emburse's standard text

At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, 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 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.

Responsibilities

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 drive requirements that take into account all parties' need

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 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.

Qualifications

Education:

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

Work Experience:

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

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 or familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts and standards, such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML, is highly desirable.

Why Emburse?

Emburse's standard text

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
Emburse's standard text

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.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CI/CD · OAuth · Serverless

Rare in Emburse's other 17 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

In most of Emburse's ads

AWS

Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.

68% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Emburse's standard text, folded away below.

Read against Emburse's other open postings on this site.

The team: Engineering/Prod Dev HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 10 open in Engineering/Prod Dev. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

AWS (10 of 10), Microservices (9 of 10), Docker (8 of 10), Git (8 of 10), Linux (8 of 10), Java (7 of 10), NoSQL (7 of 10)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Emburse's own job board.

Salary context

9 other open postings titled Senior Software Engineer I state a salary: median USD 140,400 to USD 209,368 a year.

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