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Senior Software Engineer

Emburse

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Role details

The practical picture
Employment
Full-time

Inside the role

Responsibilities
Develop sophisticated software with minimum supervision, contributing to system design and architecture decisions in their specialty area Enhance customer experiences and solve complex technical challenges across interconnected system solutions Actively identify areas for improvement, raise roadblocks, and update estimations as needed Mentor junior developers, provide expanded code review responsibilities, and give constructive feedback to team members Drive requirements with product and analytics teams, ensuring alignment with all stakeholders' needs Participate in SDLC processes including agile ceremonies, peer code reviews, and technical preparations for releases
Qualifications
6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience Minimum 6 years' professional experience in Java development Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT Experience working in scrum and DevOps environment; good understanding of agile application development lifecycle Experience designing and building JSON or REST services; experience with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm
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The role, at a glance

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Emburse seeks a Senior Software Engineer for onsite work in Barcelona, requiring 6+ years of Java development experience and project lead capabilities. The role focuses on building sophisticated, scalable software solutions within a scrum/DevOps environment, with strong emphasis on quality, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.

What you need

  • 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience
  • Minimum 6 years' professional experience in Java development
  • Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT
  • Experience working in scrum and DevOps environment; good understanding of agile application development lifecycle
  • Experience designing and building JSON or REST services; experience with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers
  • Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm

What you will own

  • Develop sophisticated software with minimum supervision, contributing to system design and architecture decisions in their specialty area
  • Enhance customer experiences and solve complex technical challenges across interconnected system solutions
  • Actively identify areas for improvement, raise roadblocks, and update estimations as needed
  • Mentor junior developers, provide expanded code review responsibilities, and give constructive feedback to team members
  • Drive requirements with product and analytics teams, ensuring alignment with all stakeholders' needs
  • Participate in SDLC processes including agile ceremonies, peer code reviews, and technical preparations for releases
Core skills
JavaSpringAWSMicroservicesSQLNoSQLGITRESTDockerAgile
Internal freshness window ends Oct 21, 2026
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  • location “onsite,Barcelona”
  • responsibilities “6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience”
  • must_have “Minimum of 6 years' professional experience in Java development. Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT”
  • must_have “Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment. Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle”
  • must_have “Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm”
  • responsibilities “Mentors less experienced team members”
  • responsibilities “Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers”
  • company_remote_policy “LI-Onsite”
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Role brief
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 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'll do:

  • 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
  • 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' needs
  • 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
  • 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.
  • LI-BM1
  • LI-Onsite
  • What we're looking for:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience
  • Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in Java development. Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT. Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment. Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle. 
  • Experience Designing and building JSON or REST services, experience working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing.
  • Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm
  • Extensive experience in RESTful and security of API design
  • Intermediate level in at least 1 OOP language
  • Intermediate knowledge in react native and react  
  • Intermediate knowledge in Javascript 
  • Intermediate knowledge in nodejs 
  • Extensive knowledge how NPM package & webpack lifecycle works
  • Experience in IOS/Android development
  • Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
  • Additional

    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. 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 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.