Software Development Manager

Role Overview:

We are looking for talented people who want to help shape the future of the e-commerce markets of Korea and Asia! One of Korea’s largest innovative and independent e-commerce firms, Coupang has revolutionised Korean customers’ shopping experience through a constant series of innovation. With more than 12 million customers making about 200 million purchases from Coupang, we are seeing billions of hits every year. Coupang is engaged in a fierce competition in Korea’s e-commerce sector, which accounts for about $60 billion of the country’s $342 billion distribution market. Recording an average of 15-20% growth, we are on track to become a $130 billion worth firm by 2020.

In your role as the software development manager (SDM), you will be leading a team of best-in-class engineers dedicated to projects aimed at enhancing customer experience. Make the best use of your technical expertise and HR management skills to create a team of smart and curious troubleshooters.

As a SDM, you will also lead the future of a system that can fulfill computing needs based on a distributed system, high scalability, low latency and high availability. Your other duties will include standardising processes, tracking indices, and providing feedback regarding the system domains. As an engineering leader, you will be expected to demonstrate technical leadership that can help solve complicated issues and achieve a balance between strategies and tactics.

To fulfill the role of a SDM successfully, you need to take a customer-centered approach, delving into what delivery features they want, and an excellent technical vision that will help attract the best engineers. You will also be required to have the ability to motivate and guide your team of engineers to develop their careers and grow professionally.

What You Will Do :

As the SDM, you will:

• manage an agile team of professional developers dedicated to building a scalable, stable, and manageable system;

• recruit and hire developers to in line with the team’s goals;

• assist each team member with career-building through 1:1 evaluation and counseling sessions;

• define the system architecture with other developers;

• understand and prioritise requirements; collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to establish a roadmap and execute plans;

• define, measure, and report indices;

• Support the team’s software implementation and operation;

• lead improvements in development and management support;

• lead standardisation of and improvements in business processes.

Basic Qualifications:

• more than 10 years’ software development  

• more than 4 years’ software development management and architecture-related duties

• good verbal and written communication; proven technical leadership

• agile software methodology

Preferred Qualifications :

• excellent practical skills and expertise; implementation and operation of large-scale, highly-scalable web service

• launching of product on time in a dynamic environment

• prioritisation of tasks in an ever-changing environment and the corresponding capabilities