Hands-on strategic leader driving architecture, design, and roadmap for major SaaS product areas. Lead .NET backend development, evolve monoliths to microservices, integrate LLMs and vector search, ensure scale/resilience, optimize databases and background jobs, and promote CI/CD and TDD practices across distributed teams.
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🔹 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.
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🔹 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.
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