The Principal Software Engineer will lead architecture and strategy for the Pay platform, design scalable pay systems, mentor teams, establish best practices, and deliver innovative solutions using cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment.
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 Principal Engineer at Coupa:
You’ll lead the charge - defining and driving the architectural vision that powers our next-generation Autonomous Spend Management platform. You'll design intelligent, adaptive systems that help businesses optimize spend, streamline supplier collaboration, and operate with greater autonomy and scale.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the architecture and strategy for Coupa’s Pay platform, ensuring scalability and business alignment.
- Design and implement robust, high-performance idempotent distributed pay systems.
- Facilitate design reviews and development of scalable, reliable, micro services architecture.
- Establish best practices for micro services, orchestration, monitoring, and governance across all initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and drive innovation through cutting-edge technologies in big data, cloud, and AI/ML.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
What You Will Bring:
- At least 10 years of experience with Ruby, Java, .NET, Python, or Go
- 8+ years of experience deploying scalable, containerized, distributed payment, procurement, and/or financial service platforms on a major cloud provider
- Experience as a Principal Engineer or Architect with a demonstrated ability to lead and mentor multiple engineering and product teams including other architects and directors.
- Strategize and deliver on company wide technical visions and process improvements to support key initiatives and business deliverables.
- Shepherds the new feature experience by acting as a Technical and Functional Subject Matter Expert with proven hands-on ability to improve all parts of the product design process.
- Unlock transformational capacity. Identify bottlenecks and deliver transformational improvements, frameworks, and patterns to empower individuals and teams to unlock their potential.
The estimated pay ranges for this role is as follows $218,875- 257,500
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.
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Ai/Ml
Big Data
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Go
Java
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Ruby
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