Coupang

StaffBack-endEngineer

$750–1200k ~AI est. Shanghai, China
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Staff candidates.

The Brief

“Staff Back-end Engineer at Coupang. Skills: Backend engineering, Distributed systems, Microservices. Develop scalable platforms. Maintain scalable platforms”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Business problem solving; Data-driven decision making

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

high-concurrency, high-availability, high-scalability implementation, distributed system architecture, microservice architecture, message queue knowledge, cache knowledge, database knowledge

Nice to Have

eCommerce industry experience, tier-0 systems experience, distributed systems experience, Fluent English communication, advertising systems experience, alliance systems experience

What You'll Do.

Develop scalable platforms

Maintain scalable platforms

Empower business operations

Design high-concurrency systems

Implement high-concurrency systems

Design high-availability systems

Implement high-availability systems

Design high-scalability systems

Implement high-scalability systems

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with stakeholders; Work with product team; Global distributed teams

Full Job Description

Taiwan engineering is a dedicated engineering org for Coupang core business in Taiwan. Coupang started the business in Taiwan from 2022 and the business is growing fast, and we see many opportunities there. The team has end-to-end ownership of Taiwan systems, and we are working with Taiwan business stakeholders, product team very closely to wow the customers and scale the business. We will record another history of Coupang in Taiwan. We develop and maintain scalable and sustainable platforms to empower our business, including but not limited to Search Advertising Platform, Affiliate Platform, Display targeting familiar with monitoring tools, such as Prometheus、Grafana etc l Experience in designing and implementing high-concurrency, high-availability, and high-scalability systems; l Familiar with distributed system architecture, microservice architecture and design, and message queue, cache, database etc core backend knowledge l Growth mindset, company-wide perspective. Focus on business problem solving, and data-driven l Strong competency in delivering results in an environment of rapidly changing requirements with appropriate trade-offs l Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and dive deep l Experience working closely with global distributed teams 2025-03-21T11:10:28 / InternalCoupang Business-Internal User Only Preferred Qualifications: l Prior experience in eCommerce industry l Experience working in tier-0 systems, distributed systems l Fluent English communication l Experience in advertising systems (such as DSP, RTB, attribution) and alliance systems (such as CPS, CPA, channel management) is a big plus

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