Staff Backend Engineer II (Eats Growth Engineering)

Coupang Eats is Coupang's food delivery service and the fastest-growing delivery platform in South Korea.

Having burst onto the domestic delivery scene in 2019, Coupang Eats surprised the world again in 2024 with "unlimited free delivery." This is the result of our relentless efforts to bring the best delivery experience to our customers. The innovations we have introduced so far are just the beginning. We will never stop challenging ourselves to build a better future to make everyone wonder, "How did I ever live without Coupang Eats?"

Coupang Eats gives its employees ample opportunities to grow. If you want to grow along with experts in their respective fields, join us now.

Key Responsibilities

· Design and optimize systems to handle high traffic volumes in a reliable manner

· Swiftly deliver high-quality products to customers through code/design reviews

· Serve as a key engineer who makes decisions on the system design

· Develop sustainable services to grow by designing scalable architectures and systems

· Design and implement back-end services using RESTful APIs

· Improve software quality by writing testable, clean code

· Collaborate and communicate seamlessly with team members and stakeholders

Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related fields

· Over 10 years of experience in back-end development

· Proficient in Java/Kotlin and Spring framework

· Competency in object-oriented design and development

· Experience in designing, building, and operating MSA

· Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to facilitate clear and transparent communication

Preferred skills

· Experience in in the e-commerce, O2O industry

· Experience of handling large volumes of traffic using non-blocking methods, such as Webflux

· A good understanding of development methodologies, such as DDD and TDD and experience applying them

· Ability to conduct refactoring against legacy code

· Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

Recruitment Process and Others

Recruitment Process  

• Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer  

• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.  

• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.  

Details to Consider  

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.  

• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.  

• Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.  

• Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.  
• This is a full-time regular position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes. 

Privacy Notice  

• Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice is located below.  

https://privacy.coupang.com/en/land/jobs/  

Document Return Policy 

1. This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.  
2. A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the “Company”), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.  
3. A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a “Request for Return of Hiring Documents” [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit It by email (recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.  
4. In preparation for a job applicant’s request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.  
5. The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.