Manager, Software Engineering

Who We Are:

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

Agile / Process

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

Impact

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

Communication

Represents the product development team across the organization

Collaborate with cross-functional peers, vendor partners, and leaders to deliver projects