Lead Software Engineer - 11522

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.

🔹 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

As the Lead Software Engineer for Payments team, you will lead the design, scalability, and reliability of the organization’s payment ecosystem, enabling secure and seamless transaction processing across diverse platforms and payment partners. This role plays a key part in delivering robust, high-performing payment solutions, enhancing transaction efficiency, minimizing operational risk, and ensuring adherence to financial and regulatory standards.

You will also be responsible for guiding and mentoring junior developers, shaping technical direction, and driving engineering best practices while ensuring the stability, resilience, and high availability of critical payment infrastructure.

Champion complex technical designs and work with architecture team to promote best practices.

Scale our Coupa platforms as we expand and find the right balance between the power of a consolidated codebase and flexibility of microservice. 

Collaborate with Product and Development teams to build new features and find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.

Leverage AI-powered development tools actively — we're aggressive adopters, and we expect our engineers to be too

8+ years of software development experience (preferably with Ruby on Rails)

Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills

Experience building REST APIs and microservices

Strong 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 as key contributor on a team of other engineers, responsible for team deadlines

Exposure to AI tools to accelerate the development lifecycle.

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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