Lead Software Engineer - . Net with Kafka and Gurobi - 11767

Lead Software Engineer - . Net with Kafka and Gurobi - 11767

• 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. 

What You’ll Do:

• Model Deployment: Work with Operations Research and Data Scientists to deploy
  complex algorithms and Ai features into production, including integration of Large
  Language Models (LLMs) and custom AI gateways
  Process Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to optimize performance,
  simplify existing code and enhance CI/CD pipelines
  Performance and Scalability: Identify and Deploy new cutting-edge techniques to
  improve platform performance and scalability
  System Upgrades: Work with third party vendors to test and deploy latest developments
  leveraged on the platform
  Algorithm Testing: Oversee and Maintain algorithm testing across Optimization and AI
  advancements, work with the team to bench-test, profile and tune mathematical and AI
  models
  Data Pipeline Management and Security: Develop and Maintain a system for capturing
  data that tracks performance and application/algorithm usage and work with the security
  team to ensure data is captured and stored in a secure manner
  Technical Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier by mentoring senior and junior
  engineers. Establish code review standards, best practices and run design sessions to
  elevate the team’s engineering practices
  Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design and Enterprise
• Architecture teams to build end-to-end features that resolve complex requirements

What You Will Bring to Coupa

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / engineering, Operations Research or a closely related field (Master’s Preferred)
• 8+ years of industry experience developing web applications or platforms, with 1-2 years of experience acting as a pod or technical lead
• Experience deploying production level AI and/or optimization models in commercial environments
• Strong programming proficiency in .NET Core/.NET 8+, Python, C#, Groovy, Java as well as the use of AI Assistants to increase efficiency
• Deep understanding of computation complexity, advanced data structures andalgorithmic design
• Excellent communication skills with the proven ability to explain highly complex engineering principles to product and business leaders
• You enjoy mentoring others and are passionate about cultivating a highly collaborative, intellectually rigorous engineering culture
• You embody Coupa’s core values: Drive Success for #AllOfUs, Own Our Results, Cultivate Belonging, and Build Tomorrow Together
• The strong ability to make technical decisions with minimal direction and guide a globally distributed team in an agile ecosystem
• What will give you a competitive edge (Preferred Qualifications): Domain expertise in Supply Chain Network Design and/or Large Languagev Models
• Experience working with mathematical (MIP/MILP) and AI/ML models
• Experience with Gurobi / other Commercial Mathematical Solvers
• Experience developing and deploying microservices on cloud native platforms (AWS, GCP, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with large scale advanced relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with enterprise message brokers (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Rescue)

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