Coupang

[Instant Commerce] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

Coupang
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4 days ago
Beijing, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and ensure development of scalable, fault-tolerant Eats Engineering systems.
  • Develop technical strategy, architecture plans, and roadmaps with senior leadership and product owners.
  • Drive mission-critical projects across stakeholders and globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Design, build, and deliver scalable, highly available products and services while simplifying system architecture.
  • Investigate and resolve critical system issues and proactively develop mitigation plans.
  • Recruit, mentor, coach, and develop senior engineers and high-performing teams.
  • Define, measure, and report system and operational metrics.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience building B2C-scale products, preferably using 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 and 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.
  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Preferred: ecommerce or food delivery product development experience, ML platform and MLOps experience, and prompt engineering or agent framework experience.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills are preferred.

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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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