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 Sr. Lead Software Engineer at Coupa:  As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Coupa, you are a hands-on strategic leader who drives the architecture, design, and roadmap of major enterprise product components . You will bring deep technical experience in evolving distributed architectures, a strong commitment to engineering discipline, and experience guiding high-performing technical teams. WHAT YOU’LL DO: * Architectural Strategy: Architect and develop one or more major areas of Coupa’s SaaS products, guiding how monolithic systems evolve into microservices. * Technical Leadership: Act as a hands-on lead, driving code/design reviews, establishing engineering standards, and defining the long-term technical direction for the .NET team. * AI & Innovation: Lead the backend integration of LLMs, vector search, and AI platform tooling directly into core business spend capabilities. * Scale & Resilience: Address database bottlenecks, coordinate complex background job execution, and ensure high-availability system designs as we scale. * Agile Advocacy: Cultivate a modern DevOps model with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and automated testing (TDD). WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO COUPA: * Experience: 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise-grade software development, with a minimum of 2+ years of dedicated team leadership experience . * Core Technical Skills: * Backend & AI: Advanced .NET Core proficiency with practical experience designing/integrating LLMs and modern AI ecosystems. * Architecture: Proven success managing massive, multi-tenant web applications, background job queues, and asynchronous messaging platforms. * Database Mastery: Advanced data modeling across SQL and NoSQL database layers. * Discipline: Passion for Test-Driven Development (TDD) and enterprise testing practices. * Global Collaboration: Deep experience designing, estimating, and implementing systems alongside globally distributed cross-functional teams. 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.