Staff Software Engineer

We exist to wow our customers. We know we're 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, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being leading 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 at since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial 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:

TW Engineering owns end-to-end TW Coupang core services. We started the team with small group but scope is large. The single team owns several domains now. As senior staff engineer, as a tech lead and architect, you will be working with many domain engineering teams to build the ownership on systems, build the tools, process and re-platform the systems to make core systems to be more flexible to support global business and engineering work to be more efficient in different regions.

What You Will Do :

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will need to identify the underlying risks in our system and establish strategy and roadmap for these focus areas and lead the execution with talented engineers to achieve the milestones. It will include resilience improvement, building necessary tools, monitoring and better testing environments for engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical direction and ensure that our engineers are working on building resilience and scalable systems.
• The bar raiser across tech engineering teams to lift team's engineering / operational excellence with best practice.
• Prioritise and plan the projects and features sponsored by senior leadership, stakeholders and strategically important tech initiatives.
• Lead the projects with multiple domains.
• Refine and set the vision for the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture, design patterns and ongoing simplification of the system landscape.
• Own definition, measurement, and reporting of operational metrics.
• Collaborate with company platform team to connect our needs to platform team's roadmap to leverage the platform to improve our system resilience and engineering velocity.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years
  of experience in software development in large distributed systems, web services and Java
• Demonstrated experience in creating a vision, influencing cross-functionally and driving a technology organization to meet ambitious goals
• Strong delivering software products competency in an environment that rapidly changing requirements with appropriate trade-off
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working closely with global distributed team

Preferred Qualifications :

• 8+ years of experience in software development with hands-on architectural experience in delivering innovative engineering excellence and system availability
• Experience working in tier-0 systems

Type of Work Model :

Hybrid - Coupang hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration that acts a catalyst to enrich the experience of employees. Employees are required to work at least 3 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 2 days a week, depending on the role requirement. Some businesses may require more time in office due to nature of work.

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Equal Opportunities for All :

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, nation origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.