Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

The Impact of a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Coupa:
As a Senior Engineering manager, you will support a development team in the treasury area and play a crucial role in the development of solutions for our Treasury platform. Treasury in a nutshell: To spend you need to make a payment. To make a payment you need to have enough cash at the right time, in the right account, and in the right currency. Treasury is part of Coupa Pay, a fast-growing part of the Coupa solution.   At a business level, together with product management you will change the way our customers deal with financial challenges like having a reliable overview across all banks & accounts in one place, plan future financial needs and reconcile these with reality. At a technical level we will jointly drive scaling our Business Spend Management platform as we expand and find the right balance between the power of a consolidated codebase and the flexibility of microservices. You will take on the responsibility of making sure we are building maintainable, extendable & performant software that scales across our customer base and equally important our engineering community. This gives you the opportunity to collaborate across products with managers and engineers all over the company to shape central components used by many teams.
What You'll Do:

• Be a highly technical manager with deep experience in software and systems
• Lead from the front during problem-solving sessions by understanding and empowering the team, articulating clearly the context and business rat
• Partner with peer engineering managers and lead to drive continuous process improvements and innovation. Be a subject matter expert, lead the team by example and have strategic influence
• Establish trust and coordinate with distributed product management, support, cloud operations, and other peer engineering teams. Maintain a balance between building high-quality products and shipping code fast
• Help engineers develop their career plans and assign project work tailored to their skillsets and aspirations
• Metrics driven - measure and track the progress of feature development, quality of the code, and productivity of the team. Work with other engineering leaders to continuously improve the overall development processes
• Able to work with cross-functional teams and translate/guide functional requirements into technical design and implementations Ability to pick up functional knowledge of the product at a fast pace
• Partner with the recruiting team through the entire hiring process which includes sourcing, interviewing, and on-boarding
• Provide continuous feedback and create action plans for both under and high-performing team members

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

• 5+ years of prior relevant technical lead or management experience. Someone who grew into management from an individual contributor role
• At least 8 years experience in a web application or platform development and architecture
• Prior hands-on experience building enterprise web applications on .Net stack or related technologies
• Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
• Ability to make decisions and work with minimal direction
• Prior experience demonstrating the ability to understand technical architecture, review design work, and provide feedback to a talented team of engineers
• Experience establishing and reviewing business metrics with the ability to articulate and provide visibility to the team on various business metrics e new feature developed meets and is tracked towards those metrics
• Ability to manage priorities, set appropriate expectations with peer engineering management and deliver features on time with high quality
• Ability to identify the training needs of various team members and ramp new hires on products, processes, and technology. Technically deep enough to participate in roadmap prioritization
• Familiarity and experience with agile (scrum) development process
• Strong listening, written, and verbal communication skills