[Growth Marketing] Sr. Staff Back-end Engineer

The role

You will lead the architecture, development, and operationalization of a next-generation Marketing Platform. This platform drives the growth of Coupang's offsite marketing business.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Define and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps for the offsite marketing team.
• Collaborate with business and product teams to translate requirements into architecture designs.
• Ensure the platform meets standards for availability, reliability, and low-latency.
• Drive continuous improvement in data, platform, and services efficiency.
• Lead collaboration with data scientists and machine learning engineers.
• Define how AI and emerging technologies can improve engineering productivity and software quality.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering domain, with a significant portion in a technical leadership.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Proven track record of leveraging AI to improve org's engineering productivity or drive business impact.
• Demonstrated experience translating business needs to technical architecture and execution plans.
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems delivered to customers.
• Proven track record of influencing software engineering best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Business-level English (written and spoken) is a must.

Nice to have

• Experience with mar-tech platform to support offsite marketing such as display ads, search ads, affiliate marketing.
• Experience with open-source frameworks and technologies such as Spring, AWS, APIs, NoSQL, and Big Data Technologies like Kafka, Hive, Cassandra, Iceberg, Apache Flink, or Apache Spark.
• Strong technical leadership experience in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and agile environment.
• Ability to work backwards from the customer and deliver innovative, simple solutions.

Before you apply

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date if all openings are filled.
• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer if a candidate is found to have submitted false information.

About the company

Coupang is a commerce company with a startup culture and the resources of a large global public company. They aim to make shopping, eating, and living easier through innovation.