Staff Software Engineer

Coupang Rocket Growth

Coupang’s Rocket Growth Engineering Team is responsible for building the next generation fulfillment by Coupang platform that allows Sellers to bring the widest possible quality selection of items available at competitive prices to Coupang’s customers in a convenient manner. We are building full-stack engineering teams to scale up our systems for the vast and growing selection.

This role requires leadership of one of the most critical systems that will invest millions of listings, enabling quality experience for our Sellers from Listings, and Order Fulfillment to Settlements. We provide intelligence for Sellers to optimize their Selection, prices, and fulfillment experience to Coupang’s customer needs, enabling Coupang to become the most trusted selling platform. We are looking for a leader who has previous E-commerce leadership experience and has led distributed systems development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building, owning, and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX/UI designers, front-end developers, and product owners to develop scalable, resilient applications
• Establishing and executing short and long-term design and architectural roadmaps for the business
• Driving continual improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping high bar for customer trust, performance and availability.
• Implement clean, maintainable, and efficient code using best practices for distributed application development.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and fix any issues or bugs Continuing to innovate on the platform to support Rocket Growth programs
• Providing technical direction to junior engineers in the team.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience working on 6+ years on fundamental algorithms, system design, and large distributed systems
• 8+ years of professional coding experience using modern programming language such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, C#, etc
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work in an agile development environment and meet tight deadlines

Preferred:

• Experience working in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy
• Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions.