Coupang

Principal, Back-End Engineer

Coupang
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1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across Eats Engineering and guide development of scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
  • Develop and execute technical strategy, architecture plans, design patterns, and roadmaps with senior leadership and product owners.
  • Drive mission-critical cross-team projects and solve complex business and system problems.
  • Design, build, and deliver scalable and highly available products and services while addressing critical system issues.
  • Define, measure, and report system and operational metrics.
  • Recruit, mentor, coach, and develop senior engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience building B2C-scale products, preferably using the Java stack and AWS.
  • 7+ years of technical leadership experience driving technical vision and execution at an organization or business-unit level.
  • Hands-on expertise in Java development, system and data architecture, distributed computing and storage, messaging services, caches, and performance tuning.
  • Experience collaborating across globally distributed teams.
  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • E-commerce or food-delivery product development experience is preferred.
  • Strong communication, ownership, urgency, business orientation, and bias for action are required.

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About Coupang

5,001-10,000 employees

Coupang builds and operates a South Korea–focused e-commerce marketplace with an end-to-end logistics network (Rocket Delivery), plus food delivery, video streaming, and fintech under brands such as Coupang, Eats, and Play. Revenue comes from first-party retail, third-party marketplace services, advertising, and memberships (Rocket WOW). Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Seattle and is publicly listed on the NYSE (CPNG).

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