Principal, Back-End Engineer
Core
Drive technical strategy and architecture for Coupang Eats' food delivery platform, ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant systems for customers, restaurants, and couriers.
Role type
Principal, Back-End Engineer / Chief Architect
Builds
Scalable, highly available food delivery platforms and services
Domain
Ecommerce / Food Delivery
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Java development, system and data architecture, distributed computing and storage, messaging services, caching, performance tuning, technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, system metrics definition
Preferred skills
Ecommerce or food delivery product development experience
Technologies
Java, AWS
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to ensure engineers build scalable and fault-tolerant systems; Engage with senior leadership and product owners to develop and execute technical strategy and roadmap; Drive mission critical projects to solve complex business problems; Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture; Dive deep to solve critical system issues; Help recruit top tier senior engineers; Develop, mentor, and coach engineers on architecture and best practices; Own definition, measurement, and reporting of system and operational metrics
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
