Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Pricing)

Coupand • Mountain View, CA

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About The Position

The Pricing team is a core pillar of Coupang's business, responsible for determining the price of every product sold on Coupang. This team builds and maintains highly scalable, extensible, available, and robust platforms serving hundreds of millions of requests daily. As part of this team, you will architect and implement next-generation pricing determination platforms, adopt industry best practices, and elevate engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experiences in new global markets. You will collaborate with engineers across multiple geographic locations to solve challenging problems at scale with high reliability, directly impacting tens of millions of users daily.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in software design and development
• Strong experience with distributed systems and extensive experience building large-scale enterprise platforms
• Exceptional analytical and deep-dive skills; a bar raiser for engineering excellence
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in Java or similar JVM-based languages; experience with Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with event-driven architectures, stream processing (Kafka, Flink), and real-time data pipelines
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and DevOps best practices
• Experience working in e-commerce, marketplace, or high-traffic consumer-facing platforms

Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise in open-source technologies and distributed systems
• Design layered applications and drive the highest quality of architecture and design for pricing and commerce systems
• Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to understand problems, develop solutions, and lead engineers on mission-critical projects that resolve complex business challenges
• Define roadmaps and a technical vision for the scalable and robust growth of the pricing platform to support business expansion
• Collaborate with other Coupang engineering teams to build extensible services that unlock opportunities for innovation

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Paid Holidays
• up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior