Lead Software Engineer responsible for designing technical solutions, ensuring code quality, collaborating with teams, and mentoring. Requires extensive experience in software development and architecture.
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 Lead Software Engineer at Coupa:
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What You’ll Do
- Champion complex technical designs and work with the architecture team to promote best practices.
- Find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Ensure high code quality, adherence to coding standards, and best practices via critical code reviews.
- Collaborate with Support and Professional Services teams to solve customer issues.
- Work in an agile environment where quick iterations and good feedback are a way of life.
- Help scale our platform as well as expand.
- Leverage AI-powered development tools aggressively to drive productivity as well as innovation.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- Minimum 10 years of software development experience in Ruby on Rails or Java.
- Expertise in object-oriented design and analysis and secure coding practices.
- Experience building REST APIs and micro-services. Expertise in commonly used design patterns.
- Experience working with React.js (or a similar JavaScript framework) and CSS.
- Experience working with databases such as MySQL, including a good understanding of performance and optimization.
- Demonstrable knowledge of designing and building scalable and concurrent software systems with high availability.
- Experience with technical mentoring.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code.
- Bachelor’s degree (or above) in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
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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Top Skills
Ai-Assisted Development Tools
Claude Code
CSS
Java
Micro-Services
MySQL
React
Rest Apis
Ruby On Rails
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