Sr Lead Software Engineer - 11704

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. Lead Software Engineer at Coupa:  As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Coupa, you are a hands-on strategic leader who drives the architecture, design, and roadmap of major enterprise product components . You will bring deep technical experience in evolving distributed architectures, a strong commitment to engineering discipline, and experience guiding high-performing technical teams.

What You’ll Do:: Architectural Strategy: Architect and develop one or more major areas of Coupa’s SaaS products, guiding how monolithic systems evolve into microservices. Technical Leadership: Act as a hands-on lead, driving code/design reviews, establishing engineering standards, and defining the long-term technical direction for the .NET team. AI & Innovation: Lead the backend integration of LLMs, vector search, and AI platform tooling directly into core business spend capabilities. Scale & Resilience: Address database bottlenecks, coordinate complex background job execution, and ensure high-availability system designs as we scale. Agile Advocacy: Cultivate a modern DevOps model with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and automated testing (TDD).

What You Will Bring to Coupa:: Experience: 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise-grade software development, with a minimum of 2+ years of dedicated team leadership experience . Core Technical Skills:

Backend & AI: Advanced .NET Core proficiency with practical experience designing/integrating LLMs and modern AI ecosystems. Architecture: Proven success managing massive, multi-tenant web applications, background job queues, and asynchronous messaging platforms. Database Mastery: Advanced data modeling across SQL and NoSQL database layers. Discipline: Passion for Test-Driven Development (TDD) and enterprise testing practices.

Global Collaboration: Deep experience designing, estimating, and implementing systems alongside globally distributed cross-functional teams.