This hybrid role in Barcelona requires 6+ years of software engineering experience with Python, AWS, and distributed systems, focusing on building and mentoring within an expense intelligence platform using agile practices.
What you need
- Minimum 6 years professional software engineering experience
- 6+ years experience with strong Python skills in distributed web application environments (microservices, APIs, DB integration, containers)
- Experience with AWS services or equivalent cloud vendor
- Experience designing and building JSON or REST services and APIs
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment methodologies
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What you will own
- Enhance customer experiences and solve technical challenges through system solutions development
- Take personal responsibility for quality, maintainability, and actively identify improvement areas
- Identify problems and risks in own work and others' work
- Understand OWASP security practices and apply empathy to guide decision-making
- Follow SDLC processes including agile practices, code reviews, and release preparations
- Partner with product and analytics to drive requirements that meet all parties' needs
Core skillsPythonAWSREST APIsMicroservicesDockerGitCI/CDAgileOAuth 2.0SQL
Who We Are:
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.
Additional
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.
