Manager, Software Engineering

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