Staff Backend Software Engineer Global Ops Tech

Staff Backend Engineer Inventory and Promise Platform

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Job Overview:

As our Staff Backend Engineer for the Inventory and Promise Platform team you will empower Coupang Fulfillment & Transportation to operate faster better and cheaper through modern reliable and datadriven technologies. In this role you will be a key contributor to an area of the business that is rapidly expanding and is recognized for its Rocket Delivery service. The team already builds services that process thousands of requests per second generate trillions of won annually in business decisions and manage business rules that move millions of products. We are responsible for improving order coordination with technology to deliver products to millions of online shoppers. The role will involve technical leadership on rearchitecting and building a brand new Inventory and Promise platform which powers customers shopping experience by giving inventory visibility to the customer to be able to order and gives out promised delivery dates for their order. Additionally the platform also powers fulfillment orchestration once an order is placed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding crossfunctional projects involving Inventory and Promise.
• Independently come up with quality architecture and design of systems for new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple straightforward solutions.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance scalability enterprise distributed 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and/or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7 years of software engineering experience including Java.
• 7 years of experience leading largescale projects.
• 7 years of knowledge of emerging platforms Java C/C operating system principles and programming best practices.
• Strong understanding of backend scalable software architecture distributed systems and messageoriented architecture.
• Experience with fullstack highscale production systems with faulttolerance and monitoring.
• Experience with building streamprocessing systems using solutions such as Kafka and SparkStreaming.
• Data caching and storage techniques and creating distributed software architectures with horizontal scale.
• Operationalizing software in a largescale environment with high availability requirements.

Preferred:

• Experience with scalable distributed systems and understanding of machine learning algorithms.
• Experience in the eCommerce domain involved in supply chain systems around Inventory and Promise.
• Software development experience with Java Scala and Python.
• Experience with AWS; Java language would be a plus.

Pay & Benefits:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $159000/year in our lowest geographic market to $324000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience.

General Description of All Benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Longterm/Shortterm Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 1821 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pretax commuter benefits

General Description of Other Compensation:

Other Compensation includes but is not limited to bonuses equity or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles) color religion religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices) sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy childbirth or breastfeeding) gender identity gender expression sexual orientation ancestry national origin (including language use restrictions) age 40 and over) physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status) military or veteran status use of a trained dog guide or service animal political activities or affiliations ancestry citizenship family and medical leave status status as a victim of any violent crime or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. As a condition of employment Coupang requires employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid19 subject to legally required accommodations. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability please contact us at

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