The Manager of Software Engineering at Coupa will lead engineering operations, manage teams, coordinate product management efforts, and ensure high-quality software delivery, focusing on continuous process improvement and metrics-driven performance evaluation.
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 a Manager, Software Engineering at Coupa:
Own the end-to-end delivery of the product roadmap by leading daily engineering operations and cross-team initiatives. You will serve as the strategic architect of your team's workflow, converting ambitious features into clear, executable technical milestones.
What You’ll Do
- Be a highly technical manager with deep experience in software and systems
- Lead from the front during problem-solving sessions by understanding and empowering the team, articulating clearly the context and business rat
- Partner with peer engineering managers and lead to drive continuous process improvements and innovation. Be a subject matter expert, lead the team by example and have strategic influence.
- Establish trust and coordinate with distributed product management, support, cloud operations, and other peer engineering teams. Maintain a balance between building high-quality products and shipping code fast.
- Help engineers develop their career plans and assign project work tailored to their skillsets and aspirations.
- Metrics driven - measure and track the progress of feature development, quality of the code, and productivity of the team. Work with other engineering leaders to continuously improve the overall development processes.
- Able to work with cross-functional teams and translate/guide functional requirements into technical design and implementations. Ability to pick up functional knowledge of the product at a fast pace.
- Partner with the recruiting team through the entire hiring process which includes sourcing, interviewing, and on-boarding.
- Provide continuous feedback and create action plans for both under and high-performing team members.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- 5+ years of prior relevant technical lead or management experience. Someone who grew into management from an individual contributor role.
- At least 8 years experience in a web application or platform development and architecture
- Prior hands-on experience building enterprise web applications on .Net stack or related technologies.
- Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
- Ability to make decisions and work with minimal direction.
- Prior experience demonstrating the ability to understand technical architecture, review design work, and provide feedback to a talented team of engineers
- Experience establishing and reviewing business metrics with the ability to articulate and provide visibility to the team on various business metrics and ensure every new feature developed meets and is tracked towards those metrics.
- Ability to manage priorities, set appropriate expectations with peer engineering management and deliver features on time with high quality.
- Ability to identify the training needs of various team members and ramp new hires on products, processes, and technology. Technically deep enough to participate in roadmap prioritization.
- Familiarity and experience with agile (scrum) development process
- Strong listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
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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