Lead Software Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Coupa is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to contribute to complex projects and initiatives. The role involves ensuring quality software deliverables on time, providing technical leadership to a small team, and resolving complex problems. The engineer will be hands-on in designing, developing, maintaining, and scaling Coupa’s platform systems and services, including architectural contributions to major areas of Coupa's SaaS products. The position requires advocating for best practices like unit testing, code reviews, and code quality, along with identifying opportunities for continuous improvement of core applications and processes.
Must have:
- Minimum 8 years of software development experience
- Minimum 4 years as a Senior Software Engineer
- Expertise in Ruby, Go, Python, or C/C++
- Experience designing and estimating complex systems
- Understanding of software development best practices
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Knowledge of security, scalability, and high availability
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)
- Strong communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Good to have:
- Participate in operational design and code review
- Architect and develop major areas of Coupa's SaaS products
- Find elegant and maintainable solutions to complex problems
- Advocate best practices (unit/automation testing, code reviews, code quality)
- Continually look for opportunities to improve applications, features, process and business
16 skills required
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 Engineer to Coupa:
Lead Software Engineers are the key contributors in complex projects and initiatives. They are responsible for quality software deliverables as per timeline. They work closely with other engineers in the team and provide technical leadership/guidance to a small team. They are proficient in programming languages and technology in use by the team. They often participate in investigating complex problems and drive resolution. Lead engineers networks with key contacts outside his/her area of expertise and provide robust solutions.
What You’ll Do:
- Hands-on contributor in design and development of enterprise product
- Design, develop, maintain, and scale Coupa’s platform systems and services
- Participate in operational design and code review
- Architect and develop one or more major areas of Coupa's SaaS products
- Find creative, elegant and maintainable solutions to complex problems
- A good team player, works, and communicates well with others
- Advocate best practices (unit/automation testing, code reviews, code quality, etc.)
- Continually look for opportunities to improve our core applications, features, process and business
What will you bring to Coupa:
- Minimum of 8+ years of software development experience
- Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer
- Expertise in one or more of the following programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, C/C++.Experience designing, estimating, and implementing complex systems
- Proven understanding of software development best practices and design patterns
- Experience working in an agile environment that follows Scrum or other agile methodologies
- Demonstrated knowledge of security/access control, scalability, high availability, and concurrency. Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, including MySQL, Redis, MongoDB etc.
- Self-motivated, go-getter, passion for learning, possesses strong communication skills .Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or equivalent experience
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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