Senior Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer - 11429

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 Sr. Software Engineer at 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.

What You’ll Do

• As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will help scale our Coupa platforms as we expand and find the right balance between the power of a consolidated codebase and the flexibility of microservices. 
• You will collaborate with Product and Development teams to build new features and find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems. 
• As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will offer advice and review of others designs and implementations and mentor others, breaking down information systematically.

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and secure platform services and frameworks

• Drive architecture decisions and contribute to long-term platform strategy

• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand requirements and provide platform solutions

• Improve system performance, observability, and operational efficiency

• Ensure best practices in code quality

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture

• Proactively identify and resolve technical risks, bottlenecks, and production issues

What You Will Bring to Coupa

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5-8 years of experience in software development, preferably in platform or backend engineering
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or similar)
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Solid understanding of APIs, system design, and scalable architecture patterns
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging) and familiarity with DevOps practices
• Hands-on experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL  and key-value stores like Redis.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, query optimization, and database performance tuning
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

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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Experience Level

Senior Level