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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.
Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Product Engineering organization within the Integration/ MAT team. In this role, you will focus on building, scaling, and delivering impactful backend features for our core product, with a heavy emphasis on backend system optimization, automation, and expanding our integration capabilities with the wider Coupa ecosystem.
Your work is directly connected to Coupa’s unified platform, where we redefine Business Spend Management. You will work closely with our Integrations team to design and evolve high-performing API layers . This is a highly autonomous role where you will tackle complex scalability challenges, write clean, robust code, and actively mentor other engineers to raise technical standards across the team.
What You'll Do:
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
First Challenges & Success Metrics
Within 3 Months:
- Fully onboarded into our codebase, establishing strong relationships with Jakub (direct manager) and the team.
- Successfully deliver initial, well-scoped platform tickets to get familiar with our codebase and release processes.
- Gain a deep understanding of our system structure and initial alignment on the Coupa-Rossum integration roadmap .
Within 6 Months:
- Take independent ownership of major backend feature initiatives.
- Design and implement structural enhancements to improve system automation and configuration.
- Actively contribute to alignment and technical processes within our team structure.
Within 12 Months:
- Become the go-to subject matter expert for MAT backend features and system automation.
- Successfully scale backend systems to handle 4x data volume increases (processing half a million pages daily).
- Establish shared engineering standards and mentor incoming engineering talent.
Why Join Us?
At Rossum, we are on a mission to free the world from manual data entry. By combining Rossum’s cutting-edge document AI with Coupa’s global BSM platform, we are uniquely positioned to redefine how businesses operate at a massive scale .
What Sets Us Apart?
- Massive Scale & Deep Tech: We are solving genuinely complex scalability issues. We process 7 pages per second – translating to over half a million pages a day, with our data volume quadrupling year over year.
- High Autonomy: We trust our engineering teams. We maintain highly autonomous workflows with lightweight alignment checks, giving you the space to own your solutions end-to-end.
- Close Collaboration: You will work in a tight, impact-focused squad (our product team has 3 engineers, and our automation team has 2) in close daily collaboration with Product Managers.
- Global Impact with Startup Agility: We retain our fast-moving, agile startup culture while utilizing the stability, reach, and resources of Coupa—a global market leader.
Future with Coupa (Benefits & Culture)
- Future with Coupa: We are currently in an integration phase, during which we are reviewing and aligning our total rewards programs. Our goal is to blend Rossum’s local culture with Coupa’s global standards to provide you with a long-term future featuring clear career pathways, tailored learning journeys, and world-class development opportunities .
- Flexible working models with a base in Prague and options for hybrid setups .
- 5 weeks of vacation, 5 sick/personal days, and an extra 2 weeks of paternity leave .
- Competitive benefits, including a MultiSport card, personal development budgets, and language courses .
- High-end hardware setup (MacBook, external monitor, and accessories of your choice) .
- Team offsites, regular technical meetups, and a friendly, ambitious environment
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
At Coupa, we are 100% committed to creating and nurturing an environment that supports your physical, mental, and community well-being. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help you and your family thrive:
Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)
- Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together .
- Birthday Time-Off: Celebrate your day! Coupa provides a paid day off on your birthday or another day of your choice within your birthday month .
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO): Giving back is in our DNA. We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually to support the community initiatives and volunteer programs you are passionate about .
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents .
- Business Travel Protection: Travel with peace of mind. Zurich Travel Assist provides medical, safety, pre-trip planning, and emergency support during any business travel .
- Referral Bonus Program: Share the Coupa experience! Receive generous monetary referral bonuses when you successfully refer talented friends or acquaintances who are hired into open roles .
Please note: In addition to these global well-being perks, Coupa offers highly competitive, location-specific benefits packages (which include comprehensive medical/dental insurance, retirement/pension plans, and life or accident protection) tailored to your primary work location. Your recruiter will walk you through the specific regional benefits package for this role during the interview process.
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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