The Software Engineer will develop and enhance Coupa's platform, collaborate with teams to build features, mentor others, and solve complex problems using best practices in software design.
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 Software Engineering 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 the globe to plan and deploy product releases.
What You'll Do:
As a 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 the Product and Development teams to build new features and find creative, elegant solutions to complex problems. As a Software Engineer, you will offer advice and review others' designs and implementations, and mentor others, breaking down information systematically.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 2+ years of software development experience with Ruby on Rails
- Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices
- Good understanding of common design patterns
- Experience with React.js (or similar JavaScript framework) and CSS
- MySQL and general database knowledge, including performance and optimization
- Experience with technical mentoring or teaching others
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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
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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