Staff Software Engineer, Backend

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce. 

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been at since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.  

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world. 

Job Overview: 

As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, data processing pipelines and building next generation platform and products. You will help the team to bring industry best practices in software development and operations while improving their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in new global markets. Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you’ll solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability. Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day! 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of data pipeline and system.
• Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the online serving platform.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
• Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, and availability of data pipelines.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design.
• Deep-dive and handle critical system issues.
• Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.

  Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of experience working on software design and development in Java, Python.
• Hands-on experience with designing, building, and deploying scalable, high available data pipelines.
• Large system architecture design and development experience.
• Experience with cloud computing with AWS.
• Experience of developing container-based testing environment.
• Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment.