Principal Software Engineer (ROR)
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead software development teams, architecting solutions at scale. You will need to build expertise in the entire Coupa application suite, drive architecture standards, and mentor engineers. You will also need to work with cross-organizational teams, ensuring the success of software development and deployment. This role requires strong communication and planning skills. The role will require a good understanding of the business domain and also the software applications.
Must have:
- 15+ years of experience building enterprise SaaS web applications using Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, SQL, and Typescript.
- Full stack web development expertise with hands-on experience building responsive UI and reusable components.
- Understanding of micro services and event-driven architecture
- Strong knowledge of APIs, and integration with the backend
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
- Proven expertise in Performance Optimization and Monitoring Tools.
- Strong knowledge of Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
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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.
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 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.
- Understanding of micro services 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.
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