Staff Back-End Engineer
Company: Coupang
Location: Seattle
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of
wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to
the moment an order is delivered to their door.
Powered by an outstanding end-to-end e-commerce and logistics
network and a fanatical culture of customer centricity, Coupang has
broken tradeoffs around speed, selection and price. Today, we
provide exceedingly fast shipping speeds on millions of items
including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365
days a year.
We are doing this for millions of consumers in Korea. Korea is home
to one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce opportunities
anywhere in the world.
Description:Coupang's Rocket-on-Demand (ROD) team has the mission
to offer Coupang customers the best available selection and the
lowest possible price and provide Coupang sellers the utmost
convenience of selling.
ROD is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join us to fulfill our
mission. You will be working in a fast-paced environment along with
a team of smart and passionate engineers to design and implement
various systems to meet the needs of the ROD business. You will
also have direct ownership of new features for improving ROD
platform's scalability, reliability, availability, extensibility
and performance. We care about both delighting customers and
building high-quality software and are looking for someone with
proven track record of designing and building large scale
distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building, owning, and maintenance of large-scale distributed
systems
- Providing technical direction to junior engineers in the
team
- Establishing and executing short and long-term design and
architectural roadmaps for the business
- Continuing to innovate on the platform to support
rocket-on-demand programs
- Driving continual improvement to the efficiency and flexibility
of the business platform while keeping high bar for customer trust,
performance and availability.Qualifications:
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer
Engineering
- 6+ years of solid work with fundamental algorithms, system
design, and large distributed systems
- 6+ years of professional coding experience using modern
programming language such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, C#,
etc.Preferred:
- Experience taking a leading role 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 mentoring junior software engineers to improve their
skills and make them more effective software engineers
- 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 Coupang is an equal opportunity
employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including
traits historically associated with race, including but not limited
to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion,
religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices),
sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and
medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or
breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual
orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use
restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability,
medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C
status, family status (including but not limited to marital or
domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a
trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or
affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave
status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other
characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the
locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing
a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. As a
condition of employment, Coupang requires employees to be fully
vaccinated against Covid-19, subject to legally required
accommodations. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable
accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a
disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com.
Keywords: Coupang, Seattle , Staff Back-End Engineer, Engineering , Seattle, Washington
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