Coupang

Staff Back-end Engineer (TW Pre-Purchase)

Coupang
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2 months ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own and architect Taiwan Coupang’s end-to-end core services in collaboration with multiple domain engineering teams.
  • Identify system risks, establish strategies and roadmaps, and lead execution with engineers to achieve milestones.
  • Build tools, monitoring, improved testing environments, and resilience improvements that increase engineering efficiency and operational excellence.
  • Develop and maintain user-facing shopping features for a seamless customer experience.
  • Optimize the performance and scalability of high-traffic systems handling complex workflows and large volumes of concurrent users.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver intuitive and reliable consumer experiences.
  • Write robust, maintainable code and continuously improve the platform using data-driven insights, A/B testing, and customer feedback.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, mathematics, or an equivalent field.
  • At least 7 years of experience with fundamental algorithms, system design, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • At least 5 years of coding experience in Java or a similar language.
  • Hands-on experience building large-scale real-time services.
  • Experience creating a vision, influencing cross-functionally, and driving a technology organization toward ambitious goals.
  • Ability to deliver software products amid rapidly changing requirements while making appropriate trade-offs.
  • Strong ownership, urgency, drive, and verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience working closely with global distributed teams.
  • Preferred experience establishing team culture, ensuring code quality, and operating and monitoring highly available systems.
  • Preferred experience with AWS technologies such as S3, Kafka, and EMR, and with multicultural cross-functional teams.

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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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