Coupang

e-commerce

SeniorStaffSoftwareEngineer,Backend

Hyderabad, India Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Coupang. Skills: Distributed systems, System architecture, Software development. Drive architecture and design. Draw roadmaps and vision”

What You'll Achieve.

Build next generation products; Build pioneering e-commerce experience; Solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability; Impact on tens of millions of users

Industry & Context.

e commerce
Problems you'll solve

Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions; Deep-dive and handle critical system issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent, Minimum 12 years of experience working on software design and development in Java, Python, Hands-on experience with designing, building, and deploying scalable, high available systems, Large system architecture design and development experience, Experience with cloud computing with AWS, Experience of developing container-based testing environment, Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment

What You'll Do.

Drive architecture and design

Draw roadmaps and vision

Decompose complex problems

Leverage best practices in design

Handle critical system issues

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with other engineering teams; Align with stakeholders and lead engineers; Collaborate with other teams

Process & Methodology

Lead engineers on mission critical projects

Full Job Description

  Job Overview: As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, and building next generation products. You will help the team to bring industry best practices in software development and operations while improving their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in new global markets. Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you’ll solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability. Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day! Key Responsibilities: Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of the system. Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the prodcut Collaborate with other engineering teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations. Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects. Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions. Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design. Deep-dive and handle critical system issues. Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent. Minimum 12 years of experience working on software design and development in Java,Python. Hands-on experience with designing, building, and deploying scalable, high available systems. Large system architecture design and development experience. Experience with cloud computing with AWS. Experience of developing container-based testing environment. Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment. Type of work model: · Hybrid - Our Hybrid work model: 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 2 days in the office per we

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