Sr. Lead Software Engineer, Frontend

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 Sr. Lead Software Engineer at Coupa:

Sr. Lead Software Engineers are the key contributor in complex projects and initiatives. They are responsible for quality software deliverables as per the timeline. They work closely with other team engineers 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 driving resolution. Lead engineers networks with key contacts outside their area of expertise and provide robust solutions.

• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for Coupa’s most advanced platform capabilities. Build deep expertise across the full Coupa application suite to inform better application and data framework designs.
• Follow Coupa's iterative development processes to deliver value each release while driving long-term technical vision.
• Serve as the go-to expert on architecture standards and patterns, advocating their proper use with strong written and verbal communication.
• Document solutions using existing standards and create new templates as needed; present to governing bodies for review and approval, using consulting skills to drive alignment.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product leadership on major release feature design and contribute to defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure robust, customer-focused resolutions. Mentor engineers, designers, and developers while partnering with cross-functional teams—including Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations—to ensure success across development, implementation, and deployment.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experiences building enterprise, SaaS web applications using modern Javascript frameworks technologies such as ReactJS, Typescript and strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML5
• Hands on experience building responsive UI, Single Page Application, reusable components, with a keen eye for UI design and usability
• Proven track record of leading and building high impact, large scale Web Applications with focus on scalability, high performance and quality
• Experience with web-accessibility/WCAG standards, i18n best practices, cross browser compatibility and performance
• Passion for keeping up with the latest trends in the Frontend developer community and eagerness to bring in the outside-in thinking in the products we build
• Strong knowledge of APIs, and integration with the backend
• Experience with DevOps/CICD pipelines

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