Sr. 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 Sr. 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. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across software products with engineers all over the company and the globe to plan and deploy product releases We expect that you are a strong leader with extensive technical experience. You have a well-founded analytical approach to finding solutions, a strong sense of responsibility, and good communication and planning skills. You are proactive in your approach and a strong team player.

•  Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the Coupa Platform
• Develop expertise in the entire Coupa application suite to enhance application and data frameworks
• Follow Coupa's iterative development processes to deliver value with each release while driving the long-term technical vision
• Act as a resource for architecture standards and patterns, advocating for their correct usage
• Document solutions using existing standards and create new templates when needed, and present them for review and approval
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product leadership teams to design major releases and participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers
• Engage with cross-organizational teams to ensure the success of software development, implementation, and deployment

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of software development with building enterprise, SaaS web applications, preferably contingent workforce applications, using modern frameworks technologies such as Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, SQL, and Typescript, and strong knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML5
• Familiarity with LLMs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models) and experience building generative AI agents or workflows is highly desirable
• 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 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

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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