The Impact of a Principal Software Engineer at Coupa:

The Principal Software Engineer will serve as a backend architect and visionary leader, responsible for the overall design, strategy, and implementation of our core .NET services. You will tackle our most complex technical and business challenges, leading without authority and serving as a key strategic partner to VPs of Engineering and Architecture.

Your work will directly impact the productivity of hundreds of engineers and the performance of a platform that serves the worlds largest enterprises. This role requires a leader who can operate at both 30, 000 feet crafting long-term vision and 3 feet diving deep into C# code alongside our top engineers to solve critical problems.

What You ll Do:
- Architectural Vision Strategy: Define and drive the long-term vision and multi-year strategy for Coupas backend . NET architecture. Make strategic decisions on migrating legacy monoliths to highly scalable, cloud-native microservices.
- Enterprise-Wide Technical Leadership:



Act as a lead contributor on key or critical projects with broad design issues. Provide technical advice and counsel that impacts the technical and business direction of the entire company, extending across several departments.
- Pave the Engineering Path: Establish and enforce best practices for API-driven services (REST, GraphQL), microservice orchestration, data transport, and platform monitoring across all backend initiatives.
- Drive Innovation: E valuate and implement cutting-edge technologies in distributed computing, asynchronous messaging (Kafka), and integrate AI/ML platform tooling directly into core business spend capabilities.
- Cross-Department Delivery: Take responsibility for the delivery of complex backend services on set timelines by coordinating seamlessly across multiple engineering departments and product teams.
- Mentorship Standards: S erve as a subject matter expert on a wide range of specialty areas. Mentor Senior and Lead e

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Coupa
📍 Bengaluru