Coupang
e-commerce
Director,Back-EndEngineering
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“Director, Back-End Engineering at Coupang. Skills: Back-End Engineering, Team development, Product development. Build and develop teams. Support rapidly growing business”
What You'll Achieve.
Build highly available products; Build reliable products; Build extendable products; Drive business growth; Improve efficiencies
Industry & Context.
Solve complex business problems; Solve critical system issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years industry experience, 5+ years managing software development, Hands-on architectural experience, Experience creating vision, Experience influencing cross-functionally, Experience driving technology organization, Experience leading global distributed teams, Experience attracting, recruiting, retaining, Hands on technical skills, Experience working in Java stack, Experience with AWS cloud, Experience with big data, Sense of ownership, Urgency and drive, Bias for action, Verbal communication skills, Written communication skills
Nice to Have
Experience in scaling high-performance organization
What You'll Do.
Build and develop teams
Support rapidly growing business
Build highly available systems
Build reliable systems
Build extendable products
Collaborate with Product & Business peers
Break tradeoffs between growth and profitability
Provide technical direction
Ensure engineers build scalable systems
Ensure engineers build extendable systems
Ensure engineers build fault-tolerant systems
Hire experienced individual contributors
Grow high performance organization
Grow impact-driven organization
Collaborate with Business leaders
Collaborate with Product leaders
Collaborate with Engineering leaders
Identify opportunities to drive business growth
Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies
Drive mission critical projects
Collaborate with stakeholders
Collaborate with engineering leaders
Solve complex business problems
Dive deep to solve critical system issues
Identify system issues before they happen
Devise plan to address system issues
Foster culture that continuously innovates
Innovate through frequent product iterations
Help team develop Agile practices
Drive operational excellence
Improve operational excellence
Own definition of operational metrics
Own measurement of operational metrics
Own reporting of operational metrics
Develop career growth
Develop professional growth
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Product peers; Collaborate with Business peers; Collaborate with Business leaders; Collaborate with Product leaders; Collaborate with Engineering leaders; Collaborate with stakeholders; Collaborate with various stakeholders
Communication Scope
Verbal communication; Written communication
Process & Methodology
Agile, Scrum
Full Job Description
Company Introduction 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’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 entrepxreneurs 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 In this role as a Director of Engineering, you will help in building and developing teams, you will also support a rapidly growing business and ensure we are building highly available, reliable and extendable products. You will collaborate closely with Product & Business peers to break tradeoffs between growth and profitability. Key Responsibilities Provide leadership and technical direction to the engineering organizations and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable, extendable and fault-tolerant systems Hire experienced individual contributors to grow a high performance and impact-driven organization Be a thought leader and collaborate closely with Business, Product & Engineerin
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