Senior Manager, Software Engineering

The Impact of a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Coupa:

As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-performing development team within our fast-growing Treasury product area—part of Coupa Pay. Treasury plays a critical role in enabling customers to manage cash availability across banks, accounts, and currencies, ensuring timely payments and financial foresight.You will work closely with product management to help solve real-world financial challenges while ensuring technical scalability and engineering excellence. This is a high-impact leadership role with broad collaboration across teams, allowing you to help shape Coupa’s platform strategy and grow engineering capabilities.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers working on core Treasury solutions within Coupa Pay
• Guide the team in building maintainable, extensible, and high-performing software that scales across our global customer base
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Support, Cloud Ops, etc.) to balance rapid delivery with quality and technical debt reduction
• Provide hands-on leadership during problem-solving sessions, articulating business impact and guiding technical discussions
• Drive process improvements, technical innovation, and architecture evolution across the team and broader engineering org
• Define and track key metrics for feature delivery, code quality, and team productivity
• Support engineers’ growth by developing tailored career plans, providing feedback, and assigning aligned projects
• Partner with Recruiting for sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding new talent
• Participate in roadmap discussions and contribute to technical and strategic decision-making
• Foster a culture of continuous feedback, collaboration, and accountability

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, with a background as a hands-on developer
• 8+ years of experience in web application/platform development and architecture
• Strong engineering fundamentals with prior experience building enterprise applications using the .NET stack or related technologies
• Deep understanding of SDLC best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, and agile development
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, set priorities, and drive delivery in a fast-paced environment
• Experience reviewing architecture/design and providing technical guidance to high-performing teams
• Track record of managing business and technical metrics and using them to drive decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for mentoring, coaching, and helping engineers grow
• Experience in hiring and team building, including onboarding and career development
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, especially Scrum
• Ability to quickly gain product domain knowledge and translate functional requirements into technical deliverables