Manager, Software Engineering - 11487

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 rationale
• 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