Staff Software Engineer
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · Barcelona
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 3 August 2026.
About the 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.
Emburse's standard text
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's standard text
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
Kubernetes · gRPC
Rare in Emburse's other 17 open postings.
In most of Emburse's ads
AWS
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
89% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Emburse's standard text, folded away below.
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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
- Senior Engineering Manager, Analytics posted Oct 9
- Software Engineer II posted Oct 6
- Manager, Software Engineering posted Oct 6
- Senior Software Engineer I posted Sep 16
- Senior Software Engineer in Test I posted Sep 11
- Senior Software Engineer posted Aug 13
- Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack posted Jul 30
- Senior Software Engineer posted Jul 20
- Software Engineer III posted Jan 21
From the team and dates on Emburse's own job board.
Salary context
164 other open postings titled Staff Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 198,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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