[Instant Commerce] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

The role

You will provide technical leadership to the Eats Engineering organization to build scalable and fault-tolerant systems. You will drive technical strategy, own architecture plans, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership to ensure engineers build scalable and fault-tolerant systems
• Engage with senior leadership and product owners to develop and execute technical strategy and roadmap
• Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with stakeholders and engineers
• Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture and design patterns
• Dive deep to solve critical system issues
• Help recruit top tier senior engineers
• Develop, mentor, and coach engineers on architecture, design and engineering best practices
• Communicate clearly and concisely with team members, peers and leadership team
• Own definition, measurement, and reporting of system and operational metrics

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience building B2C scale products
• 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles
• Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products and services
• Solid technical expertise and experience in Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches and performance tuning
• Experience collaborating and driving initiatives across globally distributed teams
• Data driven, business centric, and a high bias for action and impact
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field

Nice to have

• Java stack and AWS cloud environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ecommerce / Food Delivery product development experience
• Experience in ML platform and MLOps
• Prompt engineering, Agent framework experience

About the company

Coupang is a company that aims to make shopping, eating, and living easier. It has a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company.