Senior Staff/ Staff Back-end Engineer
Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door.
Powered by an outstanding end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a fanatical culture of customer centricity, Coupang has broken tradeoffs around speed, selection and price. Today, we provide exceedingly fast shipping speeds on millions of items including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year.
We are doing this for millions of consumers in Korea. Korea is home to one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce opportunities anywhere in the world, and now, we are going global by providing our services to overseas countries and regions.
Team Into
Coupang app’s product detail page is called SDP, we provide our customers detail product introduction. SDP team at Coupang builds a platform which are crucially important for the Coupang E-Commerce business. This team focuses on building world-class SDP platform service and providing attractive benefits with 7 * 24 reliable system. The team is looking for staff engineer with experience in E- Commerce to expand and continuously improve the gateway portal systems.
Roles and Mission
In this role, you will be leading regional diverse teams as tech leads and building Coupang’s next- generation SDP platform systems that (1) ensure system scalability and availability with rapidly increasing traffic and member volume (2) serve Coupang E-Commerce in multi global markets with flexible system architectures. You will be working closely with pre and post purchase funnel engineering, Mobile engineering, Product Managers, UX/UI designers and will build cross functional relationships.
Responsibilities
Provide leadership and technical direction and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable and fault-tolerant systems
Identify problems and gaps in systems with deep dive, come out the resolution to completely address problems
Engage with senior engineering group and contribute to solve large-scale tech problems across multi-engineering teams and set best engineering practices
Contributing to hiring the best engineers and developing/mentoring engineers in across engineering group to raise engineering bar
Communicate clearly and concisely with the team members, peers and leadership team
Basic Requirements:
Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
5+ years of experience in software development in Object-Oriented development
environment
Demonstrated experience in creating a vision, influencing cross-functionally and driving a
technology organization to meet ambitious goals
Experience of large distributed system
Strong delivering software products competency in an environment that rapidly changing
requirements with appropriate trade-off
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. High on bias for action
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of experience in E-Commerce domains with hands-on architectural experience in delivering innovative products in the relevant space
Experience working in distributed systems with high traffic and high data volume
Experience working with geographically dispersed global teams
