Coupang

Principal, Back-End Engineer

Coupang
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12 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and ensure engineers build scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
  • Develop and execute technical strategy and roadmaps with senior leadership and product owners.
  • Lead cross-team, mission-critical projects addressing complex business problems.
  • Own the architecture plan, design patterns, and simplification of the system landscape.
  • Diagnose and proactively address critical system issues.
  • Recruit, mentor, and coach senior engineers and support a high-performance organization.
  • Define, measure, and report system and operational metrics.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience building B2C-scale products, preferably with Java and AWS.
  • 7+ years of experience in technical leadership, including organization- or business-unit-level technical vision and execution.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and delivering scalable, highly available products and services.
  • Strong expertise in Java development, system and data architecture, distributed computing and storage, messaging services, caching, and performance tuning.
  • Experience collaborating across globally distributed teams and driving cross-functional initiatives.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with a data-driven, business-focused approach.
  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Ecommerce or food delivery product development experience is a plus.

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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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