
Principal Software Engineer
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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's 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.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 15+ years of experience building enterprise, SaaS web applications using one or more of
- the following modern frameworks technologies: Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, SQL, and TypeScript.
- Full stack web development expertise with hands-on experience building responsive UI, Single Page Applications, reusable components, with a keen eye for UI design and usability.
- Experience with LLMs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models) and experience building generative AI agents or workflows is highly desirable
- Understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture
- Strong knowledge of APIs and integration with the backend
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server,
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc
- Proven expertise in Performance Optimization and Monitoring Tools.
- Strong knowledge of Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with CI/CD Tooling and software delivery and bundling mechanisms
- Experience with web-accessibility/WCAG standards, i18n best practices, cross-browser compatibility, and performance.
- Passion for keeping up with the latest trends in the developer community and eagerness to bring in the outside-in thinking in the products we build