Staff, Full-Stack Engineer [Rocket Growth Engineering]

Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.

Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

Job Overview: 

Coupang’s Rocket Growth Engineering Team is responsible for building the next generation fulfillment by Coupang platform that allows Sellers to bring the widest possible quality selection of items available at competitive prices to Coupang’s customers in a convenient manner. We are building full-stack engineering teams to scale up our systems for the vast and growing selection.

This role requires leadership of one of the most critical systems that will invest millions of listings, enabling quality experience for our Sellers from Listings, and Order Fulfillment to Settlements. We provide intelligence for Sellers to optimize their Selection, prices, and fulfillment experience to Coupang’s customer needs, enabling Coupang to become the most trusted selling platform. We are looking for a leader who has previous E-commerce leadership experience and has led distributed systems development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building, owning, and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX/UI designers, front-end developers, and product owners to develop scalable, resilient applications

• Establishing and executing short and long-term design and architectural roadmaps for the business

• Driving continual improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping high bar for customer trust, performance and availability.

• Implement clean, maintainable, and efficient code using best practices for distributed application development

• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and fix any issues or bugs

• Continuing to innovate on the platform to support Rocket Growth programs

• Providing technical direction to junior engineers in the team

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 8+ years of industry experience building and operating large scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working 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 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.

Req# R0066957

Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.

Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.