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Company Introduction We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I 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 a
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Company Introduction
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I 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 Rocket Growth is the 2P marketplace at Coupang. The Supply Chain team within Rocket Growth has the mission to simplify and reduce cost of doing business for Sellers. Our technological solutions enable sellers to ship their inventory to Coupang and let Coupang handle the rest - fulfilment, customer returns, used reselling, vendor returns, etc.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, and building next generation products. Reporting to the Senior Director, this role is for a technical lead who will help influence the technical north star for all of the Supply Chain domain projects within Rocket Growth, as well as with internal and external partners. This role is highly technical, but also requires deep business acumen and active participation and partnership with Product to shape what we build. If you thrive working alongside Product to help define what we build, are deeply technical to understand the nuances of Supply Chain and the plethora of systems that typically are part of it - then this is the perfect role for you.
What You Will Do
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Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of the system.
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Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the product
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Collaborate with other engineering teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
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Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects.
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Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
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Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design.
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Deep-dive and handle critical system issues.
Basic Qualification
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Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
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Minimum 12 years of experience working on software design and development in Java, Python.
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Proven track record of designing and building large-scale distributed systems in the Supply Chain space.
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Large system architecture design and development experience.
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Experience with cloud computing with AWS.
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Experience of developing container-based testing environment.
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Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment.
Preferred Qualifications
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Deep understanding of Supply Chain Domain
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Deep expertise in AWS ecosystem (compute, storage, distributed services)
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Mentor & junior engineers and influence team architecture
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Excellent Communication Skills
Type of work model
- Hybrid
Details to consider
- Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
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