Staff Backend Engineer

4 weeks ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Coupang Full time
Job Overview:

As a Staff Backend Engineer for Global Inventory and Promise Systems at Coupang, you will play a key role in empowering our Fulfillment & Transportation team to operate faster, better, and cheaper through modern, reliable, and data-driven technologies. Your expertise will be instrumental in developing and maintaining scalable software systems that optimize the real-time distribution of customer orders to our fulfillment centers nationwide.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects involving fulfillment optimization.
  • Independently ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
  • Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
  • Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
  • Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
  • Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
  • Develop complex and efficient functions to transform raw data sources into powerful, reliable components of our data lake.
  • Grow our analytics capabilities with faster, more reliable data pipelines, and better modern tools.

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including Java.
  • 7+ years of experience leading large-scale projects.
  • 7+ years of knowledge of emerging platforms, Java, C/C++, Android, iOS, operating system principles, and programming best practices.
  • Strong understanding of backend scalable software architecture, distributed systems, and message-oriented architecture.
  • Experience of full-stack, high-scale production systems with fault-tolerance and monitoring.
  • Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Kafka and Spark-Streaming.
  • Data caching and storage techniques and Creating distributed software architectures with horizontal scale.
  • Operationalizing software in a large-scale environment with high availability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience on creating simulation systems that would simulate outputs coming from Operation research optimization algorithms for data especially for an E-commerce setup.
  • Have experience with data engineering and analytics along with backend engineering.
  • Experience in the eCommerce domain involved in supply chain optimization.
  • Software development experience with Java, Scala and Python.
  • Experience with AWS, Java language would be a plus.


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