Senior Staff - Backend Engineer

As an experienced and passionate engineering leader at Coupang, you will play a crucial role in championing the design and development of services, driving alignment with leadership and stakeholders, influencing and building trust with teams, and executing the delivery of complex systems with a focus on scalability, extensibility, and reliability. Your out-of-the-box thinking will be key in simplifying tech complexity to provide a best-in-class delivery experience that wows our customers. Key Responsibilities: - Lead architecture design for scalable, extensible, and reliable systems in Post Purchase & LFS. - Align technology roadmaps with leadership and stakeholders. - Remove technical blockers and simplify complex problems into actionable solutions. - Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and Move with Urgency. - Write code when needed to guide teams and support high-priority initiatives. - Identify business and tech opportunities; evaluate and adopt new technologies. - Recruit, mentor, and grow top-tier engineering talent. Essential Qualifications: - At least 15+ years in software development, with a strong record of delivering impactful, large-scale systems. - 7+ years building and operating backend services and web applications. - Deep expertise in distributed systems, storage, data processing, and server technologies. - Strong coding skills in Java and Spring Framework; object-oriented design. - Experience driving improvements in code quality. - Additionally, experience with: AWS-based service development and operations, Frontend frameworks (React, Angular), ORM tools (JPA, Hibernate), domain modeling, NoSQL and relational/columnar databases, Git, CI/CD automation, and Agile methodologies, Logistics-related service development. Join Coupang now to be part of a company that values equal opportunities for all and is committed to fostering a globally diverse team that drives our unprecedented success.,