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At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, 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.
Summary/Objective
Emburse Engineering Managers drive the execution, culture, and technical vision behind an engaging and interconnected set of enterprise solutions. As a Manager of Software Engineering, you will lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing engineering team, fostering an environment grounded in technical excellence, accountability, and continuous growth. You will balance direct people management with strategic technical leadership - guiding architectural decisions, optimizing delivery workflows, and unblocking complex engineering challenges. Emburse, known for its innovation and award-winning technologies, relies on strong engineering leadership to build world-class products while coaching and developing the next generation of technical talent.
Essential Functions Technical
- 4–6 years of distributed software development experience, with 1–3 years of direct line management or player-coach management experience
- Hands-on technical depth with ability to review code, triage alerts, and analyze software requirements
- Ability to review and influence design plans and architectural decisions
- Oversees 3rd-party API integrations, vendor workflows, and data verification partnerships core to our travel platform
- Manage goal priorities as set by senior management and delegate tasks to appropriate resources
- Develop, lead, coach, and assess the engineering team (5–6 direct reports across US and Canada)
- Grow a team culture that is collaborative and grounded in trust, open feedback, and accountability
- Provide technical guidance and coaching; break down barriers that interfere with tasks
- Familiar with all policies, procedures, and technical concepts related to software programming, including but not limited to security, deployments, build and UAT processes, SDLC, SSDLC, PCI/DSS, and GDPR.
- Participates in design activities and system architecture reviews
- Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
- Promotes and models modern developer workflows and AI tools to enhance team productivity
- Work closely with a product partner and the team to refine options and drive strong tradeoff conversations
- Leads small technical teams in delivering highly scalable and reliable applications that meet business budgets and timelines
- Establishes attainable goals in order for the project to finish on time
- Provides guidance to team members to encourage work productivity
- Focused on one or more small projects or platforms at once
- Monitors, evaluates and ensures the completion of tasks and projects Improves engineering quality and efficiency (e.g. workflow, code review)
- Aligns product engineering team with the company’s vision
- Hires qualified candidates to strengthen company and team
- Represents the product development team across the organization
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers, vendor partners, and leaders to deliver projects
Education:
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience
Experience Required:
- Minimum of 1–3 years of direct line management experience.
- Minimum of 4 years’ professional experience in C# development.
- Experience working in Windows and Linux environments, .NET, Azure or AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, Git.
- Experience working in a Scrum and DevOps environment.
- Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle. (Note: Candidates with a strong engineering background will be considered if accompanied by direct Travel domain expertise).
- Experience designing and building REST/JSON services; experience working with 3rd party APIs, vendor integrations, Azure APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing.
- Experience with data processing or data engineering, integration with AI and ML services, APIs, harness tools, or models.
- Prior experience working in the corporate travel, booking, or expense domain.
Required: None
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
- Familiarity with full stack development and proven history of application development
- Understanding of secure application programming practices or vulnerabilities
- Strong understanding and practical experience with common design patterns.
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
- Ability to solve business problems through creative and forward-looking solutions.
- This role is not sponsorship eligible
- Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in Canada
- This is an onsite role in Toronto
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
- A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-
- A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that
- A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making
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.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
