The Role
The role involves designing and implementing cloud-native solutions, supporting AI initiatives, and mentoring peers at Emburse. Responsibilities include data strategy, product collaboration, and infrastructure management.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
Emburse is transforming travel and expense management for the modern workforce. As we expand our intelligent platform, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to help deliver our next-generation, cloud-native solutions. This role is a critical opportunity to shape the future of our technology, with a focus on intelligent architecture, scalable infrastructure, and data-driven product evolution.
As an Emburse Senior Software Engineer supporting our AI initiatives, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for driving the design and implementation of Emburse’s future-facing travel and expense platform. You will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to develop scalable, cloud-native solutions that power core experiences and innovations for our customers.
Your expertise in AWS, observability, and infrastructure-as-code will ensure system reliability, performance, and maintainability at scale. Additionally, you will serve as a mentor to engineering peers and help foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Data Strategy: Design and implement infrastructure that enables robust, scalable data collection and insight generation to inform business and product decisions.
- Product Collaboration: Partner closely with product management to refine scopes, break down complex engineering efforts, and deliver user-centric features efficiently.
- Technology Foresight: Anticipate future business and technical needs by monitoring industry trends and proposing a forward-looking technical roadmap.
- Monitoring & Observability: Instrument systems and services with comprehensive monitoring and diagnostics using industry-standard tools.
- Infrastructure as Code: Own and enhance the team’s Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, ensuring consistent and scalable deployments.
- Generative AI Integration: Explore, prototype, and integrate emerging GenAI technologies to unlock new product capabilities and operational efficiencies.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Communicate technical ideas and decisions clearly to stakeholders across technical and non-technical domains.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience considered.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience building scalable, cloud-native applications
Key Qualifications
- Cloud Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of AWS services, including but not limited to IAM,
- EKS, Lambda, S3, SageMaker, CloudWatch.
- Instrumentation & Observability: Deep experience with monitoring frameworks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Infrastructure as Code: Proven ability to manage production infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent.
- Data-Driven Development: A strong record of building systems that generate and utilize instrumentation and telemetry to drive insights.
- Product Orientation: Strong understanding of how technical choices affect product outcomes and customer experience.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to articulate technical vision and contribute to long-term technology planning.
- GenAI Fluency: Enthusiasm and foundational understanding of Generative AI tools, frameworks, and their applications in enterprise software.
- Clear Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across roles and functions
Preferred Skills
- Experience with modern data platforms and data pipeline architectures.
- Hands-on experimentation or prototyping with GenAI and AI agent frameworks.
- Background working in travel, expense, or financial systems is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source projects or developer communities.
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.
Top Skills
AWS
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch
Datadog
Eks
Grafana
Lambda
Prometheus
S3
Sagemaker
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most.
Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted expense and AP automation solutions, including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie. The company’s innovative offerings, which are uniquely tailored for specific industries, company sizes, and geographies, are trusted by more than 4.5 million users in more than 120 countries. Over 14,000 customers, from start-ups to global enterprises, including Boot Barn, Grant Thornton, Telefónica, Lufthansa Systems, and Toyota rely on Emburse to make faster, smarter decisions, empower business travelers to recapture lost nights and weekends spent doing tedious expense management, and help make users’ lives -- and their businesses -- better.
