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[Eats Biz Engineering] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

Coupang

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