As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll scale Coupa platforms, collaborate on new features, solve complex problems, and drive innovation.
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:
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 Lead 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 flexibility of microservice.
- You will collaborate with Product and Development teams to build new features and find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.
- You will solve unique problems that may involve other teams, apply project management skills to your team, and develop new concepts or techniques that affect others.
- Drive innovation by developing new concepts, techniques, and best practices that influence and elevate other teams.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- 5+ years of application development experience required with Ruby on Rails
- Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices
- Strong understanding of common design patterns
- 3+ experience with React.js (or similar Javascript framework) and CSS
- MySQL and general database knowledge, including performance and optimization
- Experience as key contributor on a team of other engineers, responsible for team deadlines
The estimated pay range for this role is $125,000 - $162,000
The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
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Top Skills
CSS
Microservices
MySQL
React
Rest Apis
Ruby On Rails
Coupa Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
350 N. Orleans St, Chicago, IL, United States, 60654
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