Director, Back-end Engineering

The role

You will lead and scale the Data Ingestion & Analytics Platform team. You will manage technical projects, hire talent, and provide technical guidance to team members.

What you will do

• Hire world class talent and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
• Participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads as a hands-on manager
• Partner with key business stakeholders to prioritize work and create products for the data platform ingestion and analytics team
• Provide technical leadership by giving guidance on designs and coding when time allows
• Maintain high availability across high QPS ingestions services
• Partner with product management, data science, and senior executive stakeholders to deliver scalable analytics infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience in data warehouse engineering and business intelligence
• 5+ years leading, managing and hiring a team of talented engineers
• 5+ years in building large scale, high-volume data warehouse environment
• Deep expertise with database development skills including SQL
• Expertise with various ETL technologies and familiar with ETL tools
• Solid understanding of both relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Experience with visualization, data mining, or statistical tools
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with others
• Excellent people skills to partner with various key business stakeholders
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice to have

• Experience with DW Appliance is a plus

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits

Before you apply

• Complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit
• Apply with your Coupang e-mail address

About the company

Coupang is an American technology company and one of the fastest-growing retail companies. It has a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company.