[Instant Commerce] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer
Core
Senior technical leader driving cross-team initiatives for Coupang Eats Engineering to build scalable, fault-tolerant systems for customers, stores, and couriers.
Role type
Senior Staff Back-end Engineer (Technical Lead)
Builds
Scalable, highly available platforms for food delivery and e-commerce operations
Domain
E-commerce / Food Delivery / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches, performance tuning, technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, system metrics definition
Preferred skills
Ecommerce/Food Delivery product development, ML platform and MLOps, Prompt engineering, Agent framework
Technologies
Java, AWS
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to ensure engineers build scalable and fault-tolerant systems; Engage with senior leadership to develop technical strategy and roadmap; Drive mission critical projects to solve complex business problems; Own overall architecture plan and application of best practices; 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
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership