Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet. We are
on a mission to revolutionize everyday lives for our customers, employees and partners. We
solve problems no one has solved before to create a world where people ask, “How did we ever
live without Coupang?”
Coupang is a global company with offices in Bangaluru, Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.
Description:
Coupang’s Rocket Growth team has the mission to offer Coupang customers the best available selection and the lowest possible price and provide Coupang sellers the utmost convenience of selling.
Rocket Growth team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join us to fulfill our mission. You will be working in a fast-paced environment along with a team of smart and passionate engineers to design and implement various systems to meet the needs of the rocket growth business. You will also have direct ownership of new features for improving rocket growth platform's scalability, reliability, availability, extensibility and performance. We care about both delighting customers and building high-quality software and are looking for someone with proven track record of designing and building large scale distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owning development and maintenance of product end to end.
- Providing technical direction
- Establishing and executing short and long-term design and architectural roadmaps for the business
- Continuing to innovate on the framework to support delivery programs worldwide
- Driving continual improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping high bar for customer trust, performance and availability.
Qualifications:
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 6+ years of solid work with fundamental algorithms, system design, and large distributed systems
- 6+ years of professional coding experience using modern programming language such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, C#, etc.
Preferred:
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy
- Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
- Experience influencing software engineers’ best practices within your team
- Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
- Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions.
