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Sr. Manager, Back-end Engineering (Coupang Eats)

Location Seoul, South Korea
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Description

About Coupang Eats

Coupang Eats is a new territory explored by Coupang, we deliver quality food and beverages from restaurants and cafes to customers with fast delivery. As an engineering organization, we build an end-to-end ecosystem for customer, merchants, courier, operators, sales and business marketing. 

  • Build with exciting tech stacks. - Cloud Native (AWS), MSA, Spring boot, WebFlux, React JS/Flutter, Vue JS, CSS3, HTML5, JPA, Elastic stack, Docker, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, native mobile development.
  • Obsesses over site reliability to guarantee an effortless shopping experience.
  • Truly global, with teams located at Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing and Bay area

Our vision is to build a trusted eCommerce platform by obsessing over reliable and effortless shopping experience, through a highly productive engineering team.

Role Overview

As a single-threaded Engineering Leader for Coupang Eats Merchant Systems, you will be responsible for overseeing the engineering team that owns the services for the hundreds of thousands of Merchants which directly impacts the Selection for the millions of Customers who order on the Coupang Eats platform. You will closely partner with the business stakeholders, product management, product design, data analytics and other engineering leaders to build and deliver the technical/engineering roadmap of your teams. You will participate in technical design and planning while providing guidance for engineers to ensure they execute well every day. Finally, as we're scaling rapidly, you'll have lots of opportunities to build and grow the team via hiring and mentoring.

In this role, you will:

  • Build and manage a highly efficient engineering organization
  • Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects to resolve complex business problems
  • Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Eats ecosystem
  • Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of services
  • Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions
  • Deep-dive and handle critical system issues
  • Collaborate with other Coupang tech teams to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • At least 7+ years of experience in designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available services developed in Java and database environment
  • At least 5+ years for leading an engineering team handling large volume of data transactions
  • Proven track record of leading teams for delivering mission critical systems
  • Ability to relocate to Seoul for this opportunity
  • Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ability to think strategically, with exceptional skills in diving deep and raising the bar for engineering and operational excellence
  • Experience with cloud computing with AWS
  • Experience in Food or Grocery Delivery, e-commerce or O2O industry
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and leading the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings

Basic Qualifications

  • BA/BS or higher degree in related area
  • At least 6+ years of relevant marketing experience.
  • Work well independently and be at the same time a good collaborative team player
  • Experience in understanding customer needs and create events and content that drive high customer experience
  • Track record in working in an environment with fast turnaround
  • Strong organizational skills, be self-motivated, confident, energetic, and creative
  • Motivated to continuously improve guides and standards

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.  
  • Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer. 

Privacy Notice    

Document Return Policy 

  • 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 the request to the Company (Coupang Recruiting Team, Tower 730, 570 Songpa-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul). 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 of his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.  

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.