Coupang

[Growth Marketing] Sr. Staff Back-end Engineer

Coupang
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12 hours ago
Shanghai, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers while fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Define and execute short- and long-term architecture roadmaps for the offsite marketing team.
  • Translate business and product requirements into architecture designs and execution roadmaps.
  • Lead the architecture, development, and operationalization of a next-generation marketing platform.
  • Ensure the platform provides high availability, reliability, and low latency.
  • Improve the efficiency and flexibility of data, platforms, and services while maintaining customer trust and performance.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders on cross-functional projects.
  • Identify ways AI and emerging technologies can improve engineering productivity, software quality, and organizational effectiveness.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership experience.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
  • Proven experience leveraging AI to improve engineering productivity or drive business impact.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical architecture and execution plans.
  • Experience leading the delivery of complex software systems to customers.
  • Proven ability to influence software engineering best practices.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
  • Business-level written and spoken English.
  • Preferred experience with mar-tech platforms supporting display advertising, search advertising, or affiliate marketing.
  • Preferred experience with open-source frameworks and technologies including Spring, AWS, APIs, NoSQL, Kafka, Hive, Cassandra, Iceberg, Apache Flink, or Apache Spark.
  • Strong technical leadership experience in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and ability to work backward from customer needs.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWS

Categories

BackendGrowth Engineering
Coupang

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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