Software Engineer III - Python

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. 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.

What will you do

• Technical
• Self-sufficient in at least one large area of the codebase
• Mastery of at least one language and developing mastery of multiple other languages, frameworks and tools
• Identifies viable alternative solutions and presents them
• Understanding of relational databases, development frameworks, and commonly used industry libraries.
• Understanding of testing and integration testing techniques
• Moderate understanding of how a handful of key sub-systems interoperate 
• Ability to read and understand existing code and offer recommendations for improvement
• Understanding of OWASP

Process

• SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases.
• Understands product roadmap and how one contributes to the overall objectives
• Capability of prioritizing tasks
• Estimates their own work
• Learns and applies secure software development practices, reviews code for vulnerabilities and raises awareness of secure programming practices

Impact

• Fixes bugs of moderate complexity and demonstrates proficient debugging skills
• Reviews code for team members, providing in-depth comments
• Develops new features or enhancements with minimal supervision
• Delivers medium level refactoring 
• Implements unit testing and integration testing where needed
• Produces quality technical documentation
• Makes technical documentation/knowledge base contributions and technical team presentations

Communication

• o Gives constructive feedback to team members
• o Understanding of industry jargon and business concepts
• o Raises roadblocks and updates estimations as needed

What are we looking for

• Education:
• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’

Experience:

• Required: Minimum of 4 years of software development experience

Required Skills:

• Experience with Python in a distributed web application development environment (e.g. microservices, APIs, DB integration, queues, topics, caches, containers, serverless)
• Experience with SQL (such as PostgreSQL), Redis, and NoSQL data stores
• Experience with Django, Django Rest Framework, and FastAPI
• Experience with AWS services and APIs, or equivalent cloud vendor experience
• Experience working in MacOS 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 with data processing or data engineering, integration with AI and ML services, APIs or models.
• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes, Open Telemetry (OTEL), PromQL, and Grafana

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.