Sr. Software Engineer - 11296 - Ruby on Rails

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. Software Engineer at Coupa:

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic, globally distributed team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to our platform's evolution, taking ownership of features from concept to deployment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, build, and scale high-quality, cloud-native applications that deliver exceptional value to our customers. If you thrive on solving complex problems and are driven to continuously improve products and processes, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions using modern best practices.
• Partner closely with Product Management and UX/UI Design teams to translate business requirements and user stories into high-quality technical solutions.
• Champion code quality, maintainability, and resilience by leading code reviews and providing constructive feedback and mentorship to fellow engineers.
• Thrive in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment, actively participating in sprints, retrospectives, and planning to ensure rapid, high-impact delivery.
• Proactively identify and champion opportunities for improving our platform architecture, development processes, and engineering standards.
• Serve as a technical point of contact, collaborating with Customer Support and Professional Services teams to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues.
• Drive the technical strategy for scaling our platform, evaluating and implementing modern architectural patterns such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven design.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a proven track record of building and shipping production-grade SaaS products.
• Proficiency in Ruby On Rails, with strong experience in building RESTful APIs, Services and Backend systems.
• Solid experience with a modern front-end JavaScript framework such as React or Angular.
• Demonstrable experience designing, consuming, and integrating with third-party APIs.
• Proven ability to work effectively and asynchronously within a globally distributed team.
• A strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and a mindset geared towards continuous improvement and learning.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and concisely.

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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