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Senior Staff Backend Engineer (GOT/Picking)

Coupang Fulfillment Services

$159,000 - $324,000
Aug 30, 2025
Seattle, WA, US
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Coupang's Global Operation Technology (Global Operations Tech) is responsible for the system that enables Coupang to reliably fulfill customer orders in Fulfillment Centers within hours of order placement. The Global Ops Tech Organization is on a mission to innovate by building an efficient ecosystem that operates at breakthrough scale and speed. The desired candidate will help lead Global Ops Tech Picking team build systems that drive the overall process and workflow of Coupang's fulfillment systems.

Requirements

  • 8 years of experience in backend software development
  • Proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework
  • Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS
  • Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems
  • 10+ years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications for low latency servicing and messaging systems using complex event processing.
  • 10+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
  • Experience building complex, high-performance, highly available distributed software systems successfully delivered to customers.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects involving Inventory and Promise.
  • Independently come up with quality architecture and design of systems for new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
  • Navigate and alleviate technical obstacles and blockers at the organizational level.
  • Participate in the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale global software applications, systems, platforms, services, or technologies.
  • Write code when necessary to lead by example and help with high-priority projects.
  • Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and “move with urgency.”

Other

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field
  • 10+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
  • Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to define mission, vision, and roadmaps.
  • Experience partnering with product and program management teams.
  • Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high-performing software engineers and keep them motivated.