Lead Software Engineer

1 Month ago • 7 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for helping scale Coupa platforms, collaborating with product and development teams to build new features and solve complex problems. They will also collaborate across software products with engineers globally to plan and deploy product releases. The role involves application and infrastructure support for customer environments. The engineer will contribute as a key member of the team, meeting deadlines and potentially developing new concepts and techniques.

Must have:

5+ years of software development experience, preferably with Ruby on Rails
Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills
Experience building REST APIs and microservices
Strong understanding of common design patterns
Experience with React.js and CSS
MySQL and general database knowledge, including performance and optimization
Experience as a key contributor on a team of engineers, meeting deadlines

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Job Details

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.

🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.

The Impact of Lead Software Engineering to Coupa:

At a technical level your development team will offer application and infrastructure support for customer environments. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across software products with engineers all over the company and globe to plan and deploy product releases.

What you will do:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will help scale our Coupa platforms as we expand and find the right balance between the power of a consolidated codebase and flexibility of microservice.
You will collaborate with Product and Development teams to build new features and find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.
You will solve unique problems that may involve other teams, apply project management skills to your team, and develop new concepts or techniques that affect others.

What you will bring to Coupa:

If you have experience with the areas below you might be a match for our Engineering team! We offer an extensive onboarding experience as well as mentorships and sponsor continuous learning opportunities throughout your career.
5+ years of software development experience (preferably with Ruby on Rails)
Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills
Experience building REST APIs and microservices
Strong understanding of common design patterns
Experience withReact.js (or similar Javascript framework) and CSS
MySQL and general database knowledge, including performance and optimization
Experience as key contributor on a team of other engineers, responsible for team deadlines

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