Principal Software Engineer

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.

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The Impact of a Principal Software Engineer to Coupa:

As a member of the development group, you will become part of a team that develops and maintains one of Coupa’s software products, developed using Ruby and React, built as a multi-tenant SaaS solution on all Cloud Platforms like AWS, Windows Azure & GCP. We expect that you are a strong leader with extensive technical experience. You have a well-founded analytical approach to finding good solutions, a strong sense of responsibility, and excellent skills in communication and planning. You are proactive in your approach and a strong team player.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide technical leadership to multiple software development teams, architecting solutions at scale to empower them
• Build solid expertise in the entire Coupa application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks.
• Adhere to Coupa's iterative development processes to deliver concrete value each release while driving longer-term technical vision.
• Drive architecture standards and patterns, with a demonstrated passion for advocating their correct usage and excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Document the solutions leveraging existing standards and create new templates where required; present them to project-specific governing bodies for review and approval. Consulting skills are imperative to gain consensus on the solutions proposed.
• Work alongside Engineering and Product leadership teams to co-create the feature designs for the major releases and participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure robust functional resolution to the customer-facing issues.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organisational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.

What you will bring to Coupa:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 15+ years of experience building enterprise, SaaS web applications using one or more of the following modern frameworks technologies: Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, SQL, and TypeScript.
• Full stack web development expertise with hands-on experience building responsive UI, Single Page Applications, reusable components, with a keen eye for UI design and usability.
• Experience with LLMs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models) and experience building generative AI agents or workflows is highly desirable
• Understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture
• Strong knowledge of APIs and integration with the backend
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc
• Proven expertise in Performance Optimization and Monitoring Tools.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with CI/CD Tooling and software delivery and bundling mechanisms
• Experience with web-accessibility/WCAG standards, i18n best practices, cross-browser compatibility, and performance.
• Passion for keeping up with the latest trends in the developer community and eagerness to bring in the outside-in thinking in the products we build

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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