Emburse8mo ago

Staff Engineer (Principal Engineer)

Toronto,TorontoFull-Timelead

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Overview

Who We Are: At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in travel and expense solutions,

Technical Tools

awscsharpdockerjavakubernetespythonsqlagilecode-reviewdistributed-systemsmicroservicessaas

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 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

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 with deep expertise in modern object oriented programming

Proficiency across modern microservice languages and ecosystems, with the ability to design and review systems built in Java, Go, C#, or Python, and to guide teams in selecting the right tool for the problem.

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.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

Toronto

Hybrid — some on-site time required

Who can apply

Same as job location

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Worldwide

Listing Details

Posted: September 10, 2025
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 11, 2026

Posting Health

Days active: 45
Repost count: 0
Trust Level: 33%
Scored at: May 11, 2026

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Emburse

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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.

Employees

750

Founded

2020

Domain

Jobs

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