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# software engineer

- **Company:** Emburse, Inc.
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Salary:** €75,000.0 - €89,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Foundry, Code Review, Databases, Distributed Systems, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Queueing Systems, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, SQL Databases, Caching, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Web Technologies, Restful APIs, Grpc, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/emburse/235a76b5-7088-4365-8ef5-491ecbc8a542/apply

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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., * 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


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