Lead Software Engineer - 10734 (Foster City)

Development Manager, Core Orchestration – Coupa

Coupa’s platform helps businesses of all sizes improve operating margins by leveraging AI and industry‑leading spend management tools. As a Development Manager, you will lead the design and evolution of core platform components, ensuring they support Coupa’s long‑term vision.

Why join Coupa?

• Pioneering Technology: Work at the forefront of innovation, empowering customers with greater efficiency and visibility.
• Collaborative Culture: Thrive in a transparency‑driven environment that values teamwork and excellence.
• Global Impact: Your work will have measurable effects on clients, the business, and your peers worldwide.

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In This Role You Will Be:

• Lead architecture design and major upgrades for the Coupa Platform, aligning with long‑term technical vision.
• Develop deep expertise in the Coupa application suite to design better application and data frameworks.
• Follow iterative development processes to deliver value each release while shaping future platform direction.
• Advocate for and help define architecture standards, ensuring clear documentation and stakeholder alignment.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams on feature design, defect analysis, and customer‑focused solutions.
• Mentor technical teams and coordinate with cross‑functional groups to support development, implementation, and deployment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of experience building enterprise, SaaS applications using technologies such as Java/Spring Boot, .NET, RoR, or other frameworks.
• 5+ years defining detailed designs for distributed, multi‑tenant enterprise applications.
• Hands‑on experience building low‑code/no‑code applications using workflow automation tools and frameworks.
• Broad knowledge of middleware/application integration products.
• Demonstrated proficiency in understanding and executing enterprise architecture and software development life cycle methodologies.

Highly Recommended:

• Experience with architecting third‑party developer frameworks and open‑source software.
• Experience with designing for an enterprise multi‑tenant system.
• Experience developing with containers, micro‑services, message queues, and search technologies.
• Experience developing business applications or frameworks, business process modeling (BPMN).
• Experience with refactoring and modularizing legacy applications.
• Hands‑on experience troubleshooting and debugging application errors, performance issues using APM, logging, and traceability tools.

Estimated pay range for this role in California: $142,000 – $184,500. The starting salary will be based on permissible, non‑discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Location: Foster City, CA

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