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.  Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.  The Impact of a Lead Software Engineer at Coupa: As a Lead Software Engineer at Coupa, you will be the technical anchor for one of our core business domains. You will split your time between hands-on high-level system design and coding, coordinating technical strategies across a pod of developers, and integrating next-generation capabilities (like Generative AI and LLMs) into our spends management platform. WHAT YOU’LL DO: * 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 Experience: 8+ years of overall experience developing web applications or platforms, with 1-2 years of experience acting as a pod or technical lead . Core Technical Skills: Advanced mastery of .NET Core / .NET 8+, including asynchronous programming and complex background processing engines. Proven experience migrating legacy monolith structures into cloud-native microservices and distributed computing architectures. Advanced relational and NoSQL database modeling. Experience with enterprise message brokers (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Rescue) . Leadership Qualities: Strong ability to make technical decisions with minimal direction and guide a globally distributed team in an agile ecosystem . 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.  Please be advised that inquiries or resumes from recruiters will not be accepted. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read Coupa’s Privacy Policy and understand that Coupa receives/collects your application, including your personal data, for the purposes of managing Coupa's ongoing recruitment and placement activities, including for employment purposes in the event of a successful application and for notification of future job opportunities if you did not succeed the first time. You will find more details about how your application is processed, the purposes of processing, and how long we retain your application in our Privacy Policy.