TW Engineering Staff Back-end Engineer

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 now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper- connected world.

The Role and Responsibility

Taiwan engineering is a dedicated engineering org for Coupang core business in Taiwan. Coupang started the business in Taiwan from 2022 and the business is growing fast, and we see many opportunities there. The team has end-to-end ownership of Taiwan systems, and we are working with Taiwan business stakeholders, product team very closely to wow the customers and scale the business. We will record another history of Coupang in Taiwan. We develop and maintain scalable and sustainable platforms to empower our business, including but not limited to Search Advertising Platform, Affiliate Platform, Display targeting & re-targeting Platform, CRM, Audience Platform, Push Marketing Platform, and other core marketing services for landing, tracking, personalization & attribution. We leverage big data, NoSQL, analytics, real-time processing and Machine Learning to build mission-critical and highly scalable services that are reliable 24/7.

Affiliate platform is a product that can help publishers monetize their traffic by showing Coupang products as ads. We build multiple powerful tools to onboard partners to our affiliate program, including a creative creation and sharing tool, an AI-based recommendation engine, and a flexible commission settlement/payment system.

- Architect, design and build scalable systems that will have a direct impact on customer acquisition, experience, conversion and retention

- Develop close relationships with Product and tech team in China and Korea

- Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps for the business

- Drive continuous improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform and services while keeping high bar for customer trust, performance and availability

Basic Requirements:

- Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent fields

-10+ years of industry experience of increasing responsibility leading a group of engineers, 5+ years of experience in software development in large distributed systems, web services and Java capability

- Experience in designing and implementing high-concurrency, high-availability, and high-scalability systems;

- Familiar with distributed system architecture, microservice architecture and design, and message queue, cache, database etc core backend knowledge

- Growth mindset, company-wide perspective. Focus on business problem solving, and data-driven

- Strong competency in delivering results in an environment of rapidly changing requirements with appropriate trade-offs

- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and dive deep

- Experience working closely with global distributed tea