The Impact of a Manager, Software Engineering at Coupa:
As an Engineering Manager for the Coupa Risk team, you will lead a development team responsible for our Coupa Risk application. You will play a crucial role in evolving our risk-scoring capabilities, helping your team build performant, scalable software that empowers customers to make confident compliance and risk decisions. You will balance technical leadership with team development, collaborating across product and engineering teams to integrate AI-driven risk insights and drive continuous improvement within the Coupa engineering community.
What You ll Do
- Team Leadership Growth: Lead, coach, and empower a cross-functional development team through problem-solving sessions. Act as a servant leader, ensuring the team understands the business context behind our risk-domain due diligence initiatives.
- Strategic Execution: Drive the development of "Coupa Risk" and lead the evolution of our risk-scoring capabilities to deliver more exact, actionable insights for our customers.
- Process Innovation:
Partner with peer engineering managers and architects to drive continuous process improvements. Lead initiatives to adopt new technologies (e. g. , AI-assisted log querying, multi-skill orchestrators) that enhance triage and production reliability.
- Technical Stewardship: Oversee the adoption of Coupa s architectural advancements. Ensure the team maintains high engineering standards (code reviews, unit testing) while delivering maintainable, scalable microservices and robust integrations.
- Collaboration: Establish trust and coordinate with product management, support, cloud operations, and other engineering teams. Work closely with Product to align the team s roadmap with the broader "Risk Aware" vision.
- Hiring Mentorship: Partner with the recruiting team to grow the team. Provide continuous feedback, create career action plans, and foster a culture of mentorship for both under- and high-performing team members