The Role
Lead multiple software development teams in architecting scalable solutions, drive technical standards, and mentor engineers at Coupa, focusing on SaaS web applications and cloud platforms.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.
The Impact of a Principal 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.
We expect that you are a strong leader with extensive technical experience. You have a well-founded analytical approach to finding good solutions, a strong sense of responsibility, and excellent skills in communication and planning. You are proactive in your approach and a strong team player.
What You’ll Do:
- Provide technical leadership to multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower them
- Build solid expertise in the entire Coupa application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks.
- Adhere to Coupa iterative development processes to deliver concrete value each release while driving longer-term technical vision.
- Drive architecture standards and patterns, with a demonstrated passion for advocating their correct usage and excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Document the solutions leveraging existing standards and create new templates where required; present them to project-specific governing bodies for review and approval. Consulting skills are imperative to gain consensus on solutions proposed.
- Work alongside Engineering and Product leadership teams to co-create the feature designs for the major releases and participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure robust functional resolution to the customer-facing issues.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
- Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
What you will bring to Coupa:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 15+ years of experience building enterprise, SaaS web applications using one or more of the following modern frameworks technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, SQL, and Typescript and strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML5.
- 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.
- Understanding of micro services and event driven architecture
- Strong knowledge of APIs, and integration with the backend
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases such as SQL server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra etc
- Proven expertise in Performance Optimization and Monitoring Tools.
- Strong knowledge of Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with CI/CD Tooling and software delivery and bundling mechanisms
- Experience with web-accessibility/WCAG standards, i18n best practices, cross-browser compatibility, and performance.
- Passion for keeping up with the latest trends in the developer community and eagerness to bring in the outside-in thinking in the products we build.
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
AWS
Azure
Ci/Cd
CSS
GCP
HTML5
Java
JavaScript
React
Ruby
SQL
Typescript
What the Team is Saying
Alex Moon
Operations Analyst, Order Management
Jessica Fonseca
Technical Support Specialist
Aditya Maheshwari
Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud
Jose Miguel Jimenez
Procurement
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The Company
What We Do
Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.
Why Work With Us
At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.
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Employees work remotely.
Our virtual-first approach is intentional. It gives you the freedom to do your best work in a space that supports focus, balance, and creativity, while staying connected to a global team of changemakers who are redefining the future of business spend
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