[Eats Biz Engineering] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer
Coupang
Software Engineering
Shanghai, China
Posted on May 9, 2025
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership to Eats Engineering organization and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Engage with senior leadership and product owner(s) in developing and executing technical strategy and roadmap ensuring scalability and simplicity
- Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineers to solve complex business problems
- Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture, design patterns and ongoing simplification of the system landscape
- Dive deep to solve critical system issues. Ideally identify them before they happen and device a plan to address them
- Help recruit top tier senior engineers to develop and grow a high performance and impact-driven organization
- Develop, mentor, and coach engineers on architecture, design and engineering best practices
- Communicate clearly and concisely with the team members, peers and leadership team
- Own definition, measurement, and reporting of system and operational metrics
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of industry experience building B2C scale products, preferably in Java stack and AWS cloud environment
- 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles. Demonstrated experience in driving technical vision and execution at an organization / business unit level
- Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products and services
- Solid technical expertise and experience in Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches and performance tuning
- Experience collaborating and driving initiatives across globally distributed teams
- Data driven, business centric, and a high bias for action and impact. Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
- Ecommerce / Food Delivery product development experience, a big plus