The Software Engineer will contribute to scaling Coupa's platforms, collaborate on building features, improve system performance, and participate in code reviews and engineering best practices in an agile environment.
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 Software Engineering to Coupa:
At a technical level your development team will offer application and infrastructure support for customer environments. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across software products with engineers all over the company and globe to plan and deploy product releases.
What you will do:
- Contribute to scaling Coupa’s platforms as the company grows, finding the right balance between a consolidated codebase and the flexibility of microservices.
- Collaborate with Product and Development teams to design and build innovative new features that enhance the platform’s capabilities.
- Develop creative, elegant solutions to complex technical problems that improve system performance and scalability.
- Participate actively in code reviews to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and reliable software.
- Work in an agile environment that values quick iterations, open feedback, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to engineering best practices by writing clean, efficient code and sharing knowledge across the team.
What you will bring to Coupa:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
- 2+ years of experience building enterprise, SaaS web applications using one or more of the following modern frameworks technologies: Java, ReactJS and Typescript and strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML5.
- Strong object-oriented design and analysis skills
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices
- Good understanding of common design patterns
- MySQL and general database knowledge, including performance and optimization
- Critical thinker with a curious, passionate and growth-oriented mindset
- Location: Foster City, CA (Hybrid). Candidates must be based in or willing to commute to the Foster City office.
The estimated pay range for this role is $101,000 - $110,000
The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
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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Top Skills
CSS
HTML5
Java
JavaScript
MySQL
React
Typescript
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