Principal Software Engineer (ROR) - 8975

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As a member of the development group, you will become part of a team that develops and maintains one of Coupa's software products developed using Ruby and React, built as a multi-tenant SaaS solution on all Cloud Platforms like AWS, Windows Azure & GCP.
We expect that you are a strong leader with extensive technical experience. You have a well-founded analytical approach to finding good solutions, a strong sense of responsibility, and excellent skills in communication and planning. You are proactive in your approach and a strong team player.

What You'll Do:

• Provide technical leadership to multiple software development teams, architecting solutions at scale to empower them

• Build solid expertise in the entire Coupa application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks.

• Adhere to Coupa iterative development processes to deliver concrete value each release while driving longer-term technical vision.

• Drive architecture standards and patterns, with a demonstrated passion for advocating their correct usage and excellent communication skills (written and verbal).

• Document the solutions leveraging existing standards and create new templates where required; present them to project-specific governing bodies for review and approval. Consulting skills are imperative to gain consensus on the solutions proposed.

• Work alongside Engineering and Product leadership teams to co-create the feature designs for the major releases and participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure robust functional resolution to the customer-facing issues.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.

• Engage cross-organisational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.

What you will bring to Coupa:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) with 15+ years of expertise building enterprise SaaS web applications using modern technologies like Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, SQL, and TypeScript.

• Proven full-stack development experience in responsive UI, SPAs, reusable components, with a strong focus on UI design and usability.

• Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, backend integration via APIs, and working with both relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.

• Skilled in performance optimization, monitoring tools, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), with CI/CD tooling experience.

• Familiar with web accessibility (WCAG), internationalization, cross-browser compatibility, and performance best practices. Passionate about staying current with developer trends and bringing external insights into product development.

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