Lead design and POC efforts for Coupa Sourcing Optimization, owning backend and frontend architecture (Java/Spring and React/Vite), driving high-concurrency bid processing, ERP integrations, mentoring engineers, and evaluating AI/optimization integrations.
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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What You'll Do:
- Technical Vision & POC Leadership: Lead Proof of Concept (POC) initiatives for new product capabilities. You will evaluate emerging technologies and drive the "Make vs. Buy" decision-making process to ensure we build what is proprietary and leverage what is standard.
- Architectural Excellence: Own the end-to-end design of features within the CSO ecosystem, balancing the power of our Java-based optimization engines with a modern, high-speed React and Vite frontend.
- Design Excellence: Champion clean architecture and design patterns. You will ensure that every system—whether a microservice or a frontend module—is built for extensibility, platform-agnosticism, and high availability.
- Sourcing Optimization Strategy: Drive the technical roadmap for Coupa Sourcing Optimization (CSO), focusing on high-concurrency data processing, complex bid analysis, and deep ERP/Sourcing integrations.
- Strategic Mentorship: Systematically break down complex technical information to mentor mid-level and senior engineers, setting the standard for code quality and architectural integrity.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Backend & Cloud Mastery
- Expert Java Development: 8+ years of experience with Java, Spring Boot, and the Spring ecosystem.
- API & Lifecycle: Mastery of OpenAPI, RESTful service development, and sophisticated service consumption and maintenance strategies.
- Data & Performance: Expert-level MSSQL/relevant database knowledge, including advanced performance tuning and query optimization for large-scale bid data.
- Unit Testing (Backend): Deep experience with JUnit, Mockito, or AssertJ to ensure 100% reliability of business-critical sourcing logic.
- Platform Agnostic: Deep understanding of multiple hyper-scalers (AWS, Azure) and building software that is not locked into a single provider.
- Frontend & UI Architecture
- React & Vite: Expert proficiency in React.js using Vite for ultra-fast development and optimized production builds.
- Component Design: Advanced usage of MUI (Material UI) to create professional, scalable, and responsive sourcing dashboards.
- Unit Testing (Frontend): Mastery of Jest and React Testing Library for component testing, and Cypress or Playwright for end-to-end flows.
- Modern Standards: Strong understanding of Microfrontends, web performance, and WCAG 2.1 accessibility.
- Sourcing Domain: Experience with Strategic Sourcing, Bid Optimization, or Supply Chain analytics is a major added advantage.
- AI & Optimization: Interest or experience in integrating AI/LLM or Linear Programming solvers into SaaS workflows.
- ERP Integration: Familiarity with how sourcing data flows into downstream ERP systems (SAP, Oracle).
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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