Coupang

e-commerce

Director,Back-EndEngineering

₹50–90L ~AI est. Hyderabad, India Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“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.

e commerce
Problems you'll solve

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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