Staff Back-end engineer [Promise Platform]
About The Position
As our Staff Backend Engineer for the Inventory and Promise Platform team, you will empower Coupang Fulfillment & Transportation to operate faster, better, and cheaper through modern, reliable, and data-driven technologies. In this role, you will be a key contributor to an area of the business that is rapidly expanding and is recognized for its Rocket Delivery service. The team already builds services that process thousands of requests per second, generate trillions of won annually in business decisions, and manage business rules that move millions of products. We are responsible for improving order coordination with technology to deliver products to millions of online shoppers. The role will involve technical leadership on rearchitecting and building a brand new Inventory and Promise platform which powers customer’s shopping experience by giving inventory visibility to the customer to be able to order and gives out promised delivery dates for their order. Additionally, the platform also powers fulfillment orchestration once an order is placed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field
- 6 years of experience in backend software development
- Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems
Nice To Haves
- Experience with scalable distributed systems and understanding of machine learning algorithms.
- Strong understanding of backend scalable software architecture, distributed systems, and message-oriented architecture.
- Experience with 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.
- Experience in the eCommerce domain involved in supply chain systems around Inventory and Promise.
- Software development experience with Java, Scala, and Python.
- Experience with AWS; Java language would be a plus.
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.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise distributed 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.
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 Public Holidays
- Paid Parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
