About us
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.
Role Overview
Since its launch in 2019, Coupang Eats has achieved remarkable growth in the highly competitive delivery market. As a multi-sided platform serving consumers, merchants, and delivery partners, Coupang Eats delivers innovative and reliable experiences at scale. Leveraging Coupang’s world-class technology and operational excellence, Coupang Eats combines startup agility with large-scale engineering challenges. Our teams—including product managers, operations leaders, designers, and engineers—work together to solve complex problems with a relentless focus on customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
As a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping the technical vision, architecture, and engineering culture for the entire Coupang Eats mobile ecosystem, including the Customer App, Merchant App, and Delivery Partner App. You will lead large-scale technical initiatives, drive mobile platform strategy, and elevate engineering excellence across teams and organizations.
What You Will do
- Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for the Coupang Eats mobile platform, including architecture, infrastructure, reliability, scalability, performance, and developer productivity.
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable mobile architectures and platform capabilities across multiple mobile applications and engineering teams.
- Drive engineering excellence by establishing and evangelizing best practices in software design, testing, observability, CI/CD, release management, and operational quality.
- Partner with senior engineering leaders, product leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities and customer needs.
- Lead mission-critical, cross-team technical initiatives from concept through execution and operational excellence.
- Influence technical direction across the organization through strong technical leadership, architectural reviews, and strategic decision-making.
- Mentor and grow senior mobile engineers and technical leaders through coaching, technical guidance, and leadership by example.
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, velocity, and customer obsession.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in mobile software engineering, including significant experience building and scaling consumer-facing mobile applications used by millions of users.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale mobile initiatives and influencing technical direction across teams or organizations.
- Deep expertise in native mobile development (Android and/or iOS) and modern mobile application architecture.
- Strong experience designing scalable mobile platforms, frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional projects in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Strong system design, problem-solving, and software engineering fundamentals.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
Recruitment Process and Others:
Recruitment Process
- Application Review - 1st Interview - Virtual Onsite Interviews - Offer
- The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
- Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.
Things to Consider
- This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
- Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
- Coupang does not discriminate against disabled applicants or those with veteran status. We are proud to offer equal opportunities for all applicants.
Privacy Notice
- Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below.
- https://www.coupang.jobs/en/privacy-policy/
Document Return Policy
- This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
- A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the “ Company ”), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.
- A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a “Request for Return of Hiring Documents” [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit the request to the Company by email (recruitingops@coupang.com) In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
- In preparation for a job applicant’s request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all of his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
Equal Opportunities for All
Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.
