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Role Overview
Coupang’s Rocket Growth Engineering Team is responsible for building the next generation fulfillment by Coupang platform. This allows sellers to make the widest possible selection of high quality items available to Coupang's customers at competitive prices and in a convenient manner. We are building full-stack engineering teams to scale up our systems for the vast and growing selection. Rocket Growth is the fastest growing team in Coupang and has an exciting roadmap of products and features in the pipeline.
You will be working in a fast-paced environment along with a team of smart and passionate global engineers to design and implement various systems to meet the needs of the Rocket Growth business. You will also have direct ownership of new features for improving the Marketplace's scalability, reliability, availability, extensibility, and performance. We care about both delighting customers and building high-quality software and we are looking for seniors with a proven record of accomplishment of designing and building large scale distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Building, owning, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
- Establishing and executing short and long-term design and architectural roadmaps for the business
- Continuing to innovate on the platform to support Rocket Growth programs
- Driving continual improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping a high bar for customer trust, performance, and availability.
- Providing technical direction to junior engineers in the team
Skills and Qualifications
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering
- 8+ years of solid work with fundamental algorithms, system design, and large distributed systems
- 6+ years of professional coding experience using modern programming languages such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, C#, etc.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with one or more of the popular UI frameworks, including React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and other common web technologies
Preferred
- Experience working in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
- Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
- Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions