As a Software Engineer at Coupa, you'll design and develop platform systems, advocate best practices, and improve operational processes, contributing to a collaborative team focused on creating high-quality SaaS solutions.
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 Engineer at Coupa:
We are looking for an extremely talented Software Engineer to join our 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 4-5 years of software development experience
- Expertise in one or more of the following programming languages: Ruby, Go preferably but will also consider Java
- Experience with modern MVC web framework like Ruby on Rails is highly preferred
- Proven understanding of software development best practices and design patterns
- Experience with RESTful API development
- Experience with high-throughput message queueing systems (Kafka/Resque/etc)
- Experience with building micro services in languages like Golang or Java
- 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
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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