Staff Back-end Engineer

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.

As a part of Ecommerce Engineering team, we exist for wow customer experiences, world class service excellence and hyper growing revenue. To achieve this, we build scalable & extensible architecture to support fast business growth & expansion, we create high performance & resilient backend system to handle increasing customer requests and we setup stable & fault-tolerant mechanisms to guarantee the customer experience. Creating disruptive products & resilient platforms for customers with world-class talents and cutting-edge technology is our vision and our commitment to the company.

Key Responsibilities:

Hands on engineering leader with deep understanding of open source statck and distributed systems

Design layered application, drive the highest quality of architecture and design of purchase/logistic systems

Align with PO and business to understand the problem and come out solution, and align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects to resolve complex business problem

Draw a roadmaps and vison for the scalable and robust growth of the merchant platform to support business growth

Collaborate with other Coupang tech teams to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations

Basic Qualifications:

Excellent communication skills, good read/write skills in English

Good deep dive skills and someone who is bar raiser for engineering excellence

At least 5+ years working experience on software design & development

Good experience on distributed system and rich experience developing large scale enterprise

Able to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment with frequent and on-time

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

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