Coupang

Staff Back-end Engineer (NCA and TW Ads)

Coupang
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4 hours ago
Shanghai, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop and operate backend distributed services for Coupang’s NCA and TW Ads products.
  • Design and implement multi-agent systems based on LLMs and multimodal models, including hosted agents, sandbox execution, layered context management, persistent storage, and function-calling orchestration.
  • Deliver complex Agent and RAG systems from architectural design through production deployment.
  • Build and maintain GenAI video creative, AIOps fault diagnosis, ranking-algorithm improvement, and AI-native SDLC automation systems.
  • Apply model-serving, memory, long-context, planning, and tool-use techniques to production engineering problems.
  • Design highly concurrent, highly available backend architectures and translate relevant research into working systems.

Requirements

  • Strong theoretical and practical experience developing backend distributed services at scale.
  • Proficiency in Java or Python and experience designing and launching large-scale distributed systems.
  • Understanding of asynchronous processing, concurrency, idempotency, rate limiting, code quality, maintainability, and common design patterns.
  • Knowledge and practical experience with LLM architecture and current techniques, including neural-network architectures, attention mechanisms, and Mixture-of-Experts.
  • Understanding of LLM serving principles and technologies.
  • Experience architecting and leading core development of LLM or multimodal-model multi-agent systems.
  • End-to-end production delivery experience with complex Agent or RAG systems.
  • Familiarity with memory, long context, planning, and tool-use techniques, with the ability to convert research into engineering implementations.
  • Experience with at least one AI development or agent framework, such as LangChain, LangGraph, Deerflow, Claude Code, or Hermes.
  • Strong learning ability, careful problem solving, independent execution, and an ability to achieve business results.
  • A background in computer science, mathematics, physics, or electronics is preferred.
  • Experience implementing self-harness approaches and ability to understand open-source framework source code are preferred.
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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