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.
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What You’ll Do
- Manage and mentor a team of data engineers, ML engineers, and knowledge engineers in India.
- Coordinate delivery with US-based technical leadership across time zones.
- Drive hiring and onboarding as the India team scales.
- Own sprint planning, delivery cadence, and progress reporting.
- Ensure technical quality through code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards.
- Collaborate with the Principal Architect and ML Engineering Lead on technical direction.
- Remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure smooth collaboration.
- Contribute to data architecture and pipeline design decisions.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- 10-15+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in engineering management.
- Strong background in data engineering: Spark/PySpark, ETL pipelines, data quality frameworks.
- Experience managing distributed teams across time zones (US-India coordination preferred).
- Track record building and scaling engineering teams in a B2B SaaS environment.
- Understanding of ML/AI systems and data preparation for model training is a strong plus.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery practices.
- Strong communication skills across geographies.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
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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