Sr. Front End Engineer

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. 

The Impact of a Front End Engineer on the Component Platform Team:

As part of the Component Platform team, you will help build and evolve the Clarity component library, Coupa's internal design system and React UI library that powers all Coupa applications. You'll work closely with UX designers, accessibility experts, and engineers across multiple teams to deliver high-quality, consistent, and reusable UI components used by thousands of developers across the company.

You'll directly impact Coupa's ability to build cohesive, performant, and accessible user interfaces at scale — enabling engineering teams to move faster with confidence and consistency.

• As a Sr. Front End Engineer you will be a part of a team developing software using and CSS to build responsive pages with ease of use for our customers.  You will be contributing to the development of concepts, methods and techniques with design ownership over features and functionality with a sizable impact on the team's output.
• Design, build, and maintain modern, reusable React components in Coupa's shared UI libraries
• Collaborate with UX, accessibility (a11y), and product teams to align on design and interaction standards
• Help define and enforce React component standards: props, theming, accessibility, testing
• Partner with teams across Coupa to onboard and support their adoption of the component system
• Write documentation and usage guidance in Storybook, contributing to a world-class developer experience
• Improve CI/CD workflows and testing infrastructure for the design system
• Stay up to date with front-end ecosystem trends and identify opportunities to improve developer ergonomics
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to establishing and refining design tokens and theming architecture

• If you have experience with the areas below you might be a match for our Engineering team  We offer an extensive onboarding experience as well as mentorships and sponsor continuous learning opportunities throughout your career.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience with front-end development using or similar Javascript framework
• Understanding of web standards, cross-browser compatibility and browser performance
• 5+ years of experience with CSS and building responsive pages with usability in mind
• Comfortable working collaboratively with a globally distributed team while having a growth-oriented mindset
• Familiarity with component testing (e.g., React Testing Library, Storybook interaction tests)
• Comfortable working in a monorepo or modular NPM workspace environment
• Bonus: Familiarity with npm package publishing, and GitHub Actions CI/CD

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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