Senior Backend Architect: AI-Powered Spend Platform

Coupa Software, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coupa Software, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build the agent platform's backend services powering supplier data isolation and workflows.

You will shape the evaluation pipeline and collaborate with product and engineering to ship supplier-facing use cases such as invoicing and catalogs. You will own production deployment, security, and scalability, making architectural decisions around runtime isolation and audit logging.

Qualifications

• 6+ years shipping production software.
• Proficient in Python and modern backend frameworks.
• Experience with cloud deployments (AWS) and containerized services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the backend services behind the agent platform, including API surfaces and data isolation.
• Build the evaluation and logging pipeline to measure behavior and capture regressions.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship supplier-facing use cases (invoicing, catalogs).
• Own production deployment, configuration, scaling, and security aspects of the platform.
• Make architectural calls on runtime isolation, credential handling, audit logging, and tenant separation.
• Raise the engineering bar with testing, code quality, and operational discipline.

Skills

Python

API design

Distributed systems

English fluency

LLM familiarity

Tools

AWS

LangGraph

LangChain

Kubernetes

IaC

Job description

Coupa Software, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build the agent platform's backend services powering supplier data isolation and workflows.

You will shape the evaluation pipeline and collaborate with product and engineering to ship supplier-facing use cases such as invoicing and catalogs. You will own production deployment, security, and scalability, making architectural decisions around runtime isolation and audit logging.