Senior Software Engineer, Emburse
Artificial Intelligence
Spend optimization platform
Open for applications
Spend optimization platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize work by empowering employees, approvers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Keeping track of spend is a vital capability for businesses - one that has been complicated by the switch to digital payments, an increase in remote working, and inflation, among other things. Emburse supplies a platform to manage and optimize spend, that removes the need for manual processes, speeding them up whilst keeping them compliant and delivering insights into spend trends.
Emburse's platform covers travel, employee and centralized spend, with a range of capabilities including automated purchasing, technology assisted human audit, and smart data reporting. Upwards of 18,000 organizations make use of the company's offering, with notable clients including Microsoft and Bosch, and it has been recognized as an industry leader - all boding well for its future.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2016
$0.2m
SEED
Mar 2016
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.5m
Company benefits
- Keep work and life balanced with generous paid time off for every employee and flexible work schedules
- Every employee can volunteer for a cause that matters to them, because enriching the community matters
- New parents receive paid leave so they can focus on bonding with a new addition to their happy family
- We have medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans that can fit any family size and lifestyle—including health savings accounts (HSA)
- We offer a generous match to pre- or post-tax retirement savings accounts so employees can worry less about the future—plus expert legal planning services for trusts, wills and more. We also offer financial planning services
- Our pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) helps to pay for approved medical expenses, plus a transit benefit to ease the costs of commuting
- What’s the purpose of living without a little fun? Our offices have quarterly outings, a delicious supply of snacks and beverages, along with Friday get-togethers to build a strong community at work
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Marne Martin
(CEO)Non Executive Board Member at Riskonnect. Former CSOP and President of IFS, and CEO at WorkWave.
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