As a Principal Software Engineer at Coupa, you will architect and implement software solutions, lead product-led growth strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the Coupa Supplier Platform's capabilities.
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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What You'll Do:
- Architect and ship production code across the full stack — this is a hands-on role, and it stays that way
- Own the technical strategy for product-led growth on the CSP platform: activation, retention, conversion, and monetization
- Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities of the Coupa Supplier Platform; build solid expertise of the entire Coupa application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks
- Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment
- Demonstrate wide knowledge of architecture standards and patterns, a passion for advocating their correct usage, and excellent communication skills — documenting solutions and presenting them to governing bodies for review and approval
- Champion a high-velocity delivery culture — small iterations, continuous deployment, regular releases
- Drive data-informed decisions: instrument features, interpret results, and guide what gets built next
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 15+ years of experience building and shipping enterprise-scale software, with a proven track record as a Principal or equivalent IC driving product-led growth
- Deep expertise in enterprise application architecture, especially in Spend Management domains (Procurement, Sourcing, Financial Transactions)
- Extensive experience designing and operating multi-tenant systems, including leading high-level architecture across multiple business domains
- Strong full-stack engineering skills with deep proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails
- Advanced knowledge of architectural patterns (monoliths, microservices, micro-frontends) and enterprise software development lifecycle practices
- Highly autonomous problem-solver with excellent communication skills, experience in distributed teams, and hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code
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