Staff Software Engineer (Rocket Growth)

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know were 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 were 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 whats possible to solve problems and break traditional Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on high-tech and hyper-connected world.

Job Overview:

Coupang Rocket Growth is a Coupang Fulfillment business that enables sellers to offer best-in-class delivery and post purchase experience to their customers. With the Rocket Growth business sellers products are delivered to customers via our world-class Rocket delivery network.

Description:

Our mission is to provide Coupang sellers the utmost convenience of selling and offer Coupang customers the best available selection and the lowest possible price. You will be working in a fast-paced environment along with a team of smart and passionate global engineers to design and implement various systems to meet the needs of the Rocket Growth business. You will also have direct ownership of new features for improving the Marketplaces scalability reliability availability extensibility and performance. We care about both delighting customers and building high-quality software and we are looking for seniors with proven track record of designing and building large scale distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain scalable high-performance web applications and distributed systems across the stack (frontend backend and infrastructure).

• Own end-to-end development of features from system design to deployment and monitoring.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement architectural roadmaps aligned with business goals.

• Continuously innovate and enhance the platform to support Rocket Growth programs and evolving product needs.

• Ensure high standards of performance availability and security across the platform.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers on best practices and system design.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.

• 5 years of experience in system design algorithms and building large-scale distributed systems.

• 6 years of professional experience with modern programming languages such as Java Kotlin Scala C# or similar.

• Proficiency in frontend technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript React Angular or .

• Experience with RESTful APIs microservices architecture and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS GCP Azure).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and modern DevOps practices.

Preferred

• Proven experience building and delivering complex full-stack software systems to production.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering product and leadership teams to gather requirements define features and shape product strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and implement software engineering best practices within a team or organization.

• Hands-on experience across a wide range of technologiesfrom modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React Angular) to backend services and infrastructure.

• Customer-obsessed mindset with a track record of working backwards from user needs to deliver innovative and user-friendly solutions.

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