Lead Software Engineer

Coupa; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Coupa is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Hyderabad to anchor critical domain work within our spends management platform. You will split time between hands-on design and coding, guiding a pod of developers and coordinating with Product and Enterprise Architecture teams to deliver end-to-end features.

You will drive AI feature development, including LLM integrations, and continuously optimize performance, code quality, and CI/CD pipelines within a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in web apps or platforms; 1–2 years as pod/technical lead.
• Strong .NET Core / .NET 8+ experience with asynchronous patterns.
• Experience migrating monoliths to cloud-native microservices.
• Relational and NoSQL database modeling expertise.
• Experience with enterprise message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Proven leadership and decision-making in distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead development of major platform areas.
• Design and implement AI features, incl. LLM integration.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Enterprise Architecture teams to build end-to-end features.
• Continuously improve performance and CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist customer support to debug and resolve production issues.

Skills

.NET 8+

Async programming

Microservices

Databases (SQL & NoSQL)

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Technical leadership

SaaS/Cloud

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

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.