Staff Back-end Engineer
Seoul (Hybrid) • Full-time
Insights about this position
Visa sponsorship: No
The company cannot sponsor a Korean work visa for this role.
Korean language proficiency: Not required
No knowledge of Korean is required for this role.
Workplace type: Hybrid
A mix of on-site and remote work.
Coupang Eats is a new service by Coupang where we deliver quality food and beverages from restaurants and cafes to your door. We build the Merchant app, Point of Sale app, tools for Stores, and operations center. We aspire to provide fast and seamless customer order processing and management experience for our merchants. As part of the Merchant Systems engineering organization, you will be responsible for building core systems for thousands of merchants which directly impact the selection for millions of customers who order on the Coupang Eats platform. You need to closely partner with business stakeholders and deliver growth in a fast-paced environment.
- Own end-to-end Eats Merchant service
- Build this ecosystem with exciting tech stacks such as Cloud Native (AWS), MSA, Spring boot, WebFlux, Reactive JS, Vue JS, CSS3, HTML5, - JPA, Elastic stack, Docker, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, native mobile development.
- Obsesses over-site reliability to guarantee an effortless shopping experience
- Is truly global, with teams located in Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and the Bay area
Our vision is to build a trusted eCommerce platform by obsessing over reliable and effortless shopping experience, through a highly productive engineering team.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient codes by using best software development practices
- Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
- Design scalable architecture, and system and implement the products from scratch
- Taking responsibility for code review/design review committee, and raise up the bar of
engineering excellence - Performing key engineer role to make decisions on system design
- Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations
and activities
Qualifications
- Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science or related
- 5+ years of solid work with large distributed systems, system design, and algorithms
- 3+ years of coding experience in Java or other object-oriented programming languages
- Experience designing and building large-scale services, and operating experiences
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
- Familiar with AWS, Spring framework
Preferred
- Experience in e-commerce, O2O industry
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Expertise in leading delivery logistics of large-scale services for complex business offerings
- Fluent in English speaking and writing
- Geo, and logistic development experience is plus
Recruitment Process and Others
Recruitment Process
- Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – 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.
Details 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.
- Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.
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 (Coupang Recruiting Team, Tower 730, 570 Songpa-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul). 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.
Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance are not met.
