Lead Software Engineer, Technology Platform

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. 

The Impact of Lead Software Engineering to Coupa:

At a technical level your development team will offer application and infrastructure support for customer environments. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across software products with engineers all over the company and globe to plan and deploy product releases.

We are looking for an extremely talented Lead Software Engineer to join our Technology Platform Team. You will be part of a global agile group that is responsible for building the best in class SaaS platform, deployment infrastructure, and services. The position will require a candidate to design, develop, maintain, and scale Coupa’s platform systems, services, and operational automation. Our main languages are Ruby and Go, and we expect you to be able to contribute in either.

In summary, the Technology Platform Team is responsible for the backbone of Coupa’s Enterprise SaaS Application. We evaluate and introduce new technologies where it makes sense, we develop features that can impact all customers, we develop tools and frameworks to improve our process, we work in close collaboration with Operations, and we hold the bar very high for what we deliver.

What You'll Do:

• Being a hands-on contributor is a key responsibility in this role
• Design, develop, maintain, and scale Coupa’s platform systems and services
• Participate in operational design and code review
• Architect and develop reusable microservices and other Platform components
• Develop frameworks for standardizing and enabling data flows via APIs, files, message queues
• Advocate best practices (unit/automation testing, code reviews, code quality, etc.)
• Engage with other teams to make platform components simpler to deploy and operate
• A good team player, works and communicates well with others
• Find creative, elegant and maintainable solutions to complex problems
• Continually look for opportunities to improve our platform, process and business

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

• Minimum of 7+ years of software development experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer
• Expertise in one or more of the following programming languages: Ruby, Go
• Proven understanding of software development best practices and design patterns
• Experience with RESTful API development using Golang
• Experience with high-throughput message queueing systems (Kafka/Resque/etc)
• Experience with modern MVC web framework, Rails highly preferred
• Experience with building micro services in languages like Golang or Ruby on Rails
• Experience with cloud native architecture and technologies like Kubernetes, EC2 etc.
• Experience working in an agile environment that follows Scrum or other agile methodologies
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, Redis, MongoDB
• Self-motivated, go-getter, passion for learning, strong communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or equivalent experience

Extra considerations:

• Experience managing and enhancing CI/CD pipeline software/tools, such as Jenkins
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Amazon AWS, EC2, or similar elastic cloud environments
• Open source project contributions, especially in Go

The estimated pay range for this role is as follows:

•Based in California: $174,250 - $205,000

•Based in Colorado: $149,600 - $176,000

•Based in New Jersey: $174,250 - $205,000

•Based in New York: $174,250 - $205,000

•Based in Washington: $158,525 - $186,500

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.

At Coupa, we celebrate diversity and recognize its value to our customers and employees. Coupa is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. 

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