Staff/Sr.Staff Backend Engineer (F2P)

Description

As our Staff Backend Engineer for Global Inventory and Promise Systems team, you will empower Coupang Fulfillment & Transportation to operate faster, better, and cheaper through modern, reliable, and data-driven 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 Fulfill to Promise (F2P) team optimizes the real-time distribution of customer orders to FCs nationwide and supports the most efficient order fulfillment process. The F2P 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 Fulfillment optimization and working on complex supply chain optimization problems.

What You Will Do-

• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects involving fulfillment optimization.
• Independently improve the quality of architecture and design of systems.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system 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.
• Develop complex and efficient functions to transform raw data sources into powerful, reliable components of our data lake.
• Grow our analytics capabilities with faster, more reliable data pipelines, and better modern tools.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including Java.
• 7+ years of experience leading large-scale projects.
• 7+ years of knowledge of emerging platforms, Java, C/C++, Android, iOS, operating system principles, and programming best practices.
• Strong understanding of backend scalable software architecture, distributed systems, and message-oriented architecture.
• Experience of full-stack, high-scale production systems with fault-tolerance and monitoring.
• Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Kafka and Spark-Streaming.
• Data caching and storage techniques and Creating distributed software architectures with horizontal scale.
• Operationalizing software in a large-scale environment with high availability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the eCommerce domain involved in supply chain optimization using Operation research optimization algorithms especially for an E-commerce setup.
• Software development experience with Java, Scala and Python.
• Experience with AWS would be a 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.
• Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.
• This is a full-time regular position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes.

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Document Return Policy (This notice MUST be included in a job posting in Korea only to comply with the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.)

• 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 It by email ([email protected] ). 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 his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
• The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.

Equal Opportunities for All

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team