Staff Backend Engineer - Supply Chain Optimization
Coupang
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About the Role
We exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living more effortless than ever, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We're one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies with an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce. We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a significant global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been at since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day. Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, hyper-connected world.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects involving fulfillment optimization, inventory and promise domain.
- Independently lead the quality of architecture and design of systems.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
- Develop complex and efficient functions to transform raw data sources into powerful, reliable components of our data lake.
- Grow our analytics capabilities with faster, more reliable data pipelines, and better modern tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including Java.
- 7+ years of experience leading large-scale projects.
- 7+ years of knowledge of emerging platforms, Java, C/C++, Android, iOS, operating system principles, and programming best practices.
- Strong understanding of backend scalable software architecture, distributed systems, and message-oriented architecture.
- Experience of full-stack, high-scale production systems with fault-tolerance and monitoring.
- Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Kafka and Spark-Streaming.
- Data caching and storage techniques and creating distributed software architectures with horizontal scale.
- Operationalizing software in a large-scale environment with high availability requirements.
Nice to Have
- Experience on creating simulation systems that would simulate outputs coming from Operation research optimization algorithms for data especially for an E-commerce setup.
- Have experience with data engineering and analytics along with backend engineering.
- Experience in the eCommerce domain involved in supply chain optimization.
- Software development experience with Java, Scala and Python.
- Experience with AWS, Java language would be a plus.
Qualifications
- Educational background in Computer Science or equivalent.
Benefits & Perks
- Other Compensation includes bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation in addition to salary.
Working at Coupang
We have a startup culture combined with the resources of a global public company. We foster an environment of entrepreneurship, boldness, and innovation, encouraging team members to grow and make a hands-on impact every day.
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About Coupang
Website
coupang.com
Location
Seattle, WA
Industry
All Other Miscellaneous Retailers
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