Job Summary

The Impact of a Lead Software Engineer at Coupa: At a technical level, your development team will offer application and infrastructure support for customer environments. You will have the prospect to collaborate across software products with engineers across the company and the globe to plan and deploy product releases.

Responsibilities

- Domain Ownership: Architect and lead the development of one or more major platform areas of Coupa's globally scaling SaaS products.
- AI Integration: Design and implement next-generation AI features, including hands-on integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and custom AI Gateways.
- Collaboration Delivery: Partner with Product, Design, and Enterprise Architecture teams to build end-to-end features that resolve complex financial spend issues.
- Process Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to optimize performance, simplify existing system code, and enhance CI/CD pipelines.
- Customer Advocacy: Partner with customer support and professional services teams to quickly debug and resolve escalated, complex client-facing production issues.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

- Bachelor's degree in computer science / engineering, Operations Research or a closely related field (Master's Preferred)
- 8+ years of industry experience developing web applications or platforms, with 1-2 years of experience acting as a pod or technical lead
- Experience deploying production level AI and/or optimization models in commercial environments
- Strong programming proficiency in .NET Core/.NET 8+, Python,



C#, Groovy, Java as well as the use of AI Assistants to increase efficiency
- Deep understanding of computation complexity, advanced data structures and algorithmic design
- Excellent communication skills with the proven ability to explain highly complex engineering principles to product and business leaders
- You enjoy mentoring others and are passionate about cultivating a highly collaborative, intellectually rigorous engineering culture
- You embody Coupa's core values: Drive Success for #AllOfUs, Own Our Results, Cultivate Belonging, and Build Tomorrow Together
- The strong ability to make technical decisions with minimal direction and guide a globally distributed team in an agile ecosystem
- What will give you a competitive edge (Preferred Qualifications): Domain expertise in Supply Chain Network Design and/or Large Language Models
- Experience working with mathematical (MIP/MILP) and AI/ML models
- Experience with Gurobi / other Commercial Mathematical Solvers
- Experience developing and deploying microservices on cloud native platforms (AWS, GCP, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with large scale advanced relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience with enterprise message brokers (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Rescue)

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📌 Lead Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Coupa
📍 Bengaluru