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Coupang

Sells goods online with its own overnight delivery

Manager – Back-end Engineering - Eats Merchant

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSeoul, South KoreaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of backend development experience and proven leadership experience as a backend engineering manager or tech lead.
  • Experience designing distributed systems and operating microservice architectures in high-traffic environments, with consideration for performance, stability, data consistency, and security.
  • Experience owning complex business domains such as stores, settlements, and product or menu management, and continuously improving the systems.
  • Experience maintaining service-level agreements, including responding to production incidents, building monitoring frameworks, and managing on-call rotations.
  • Ability to translate complex business problems into clear technical solutions.
  • Professional English communication skills for collaboration with global stakeholders and international engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Translate product, operational, and regulatory requirements across Korea and global merchant platforms into a technical roadmap and drive execution.
  • Oversee the software development lifecycle—design, development, testing, deployment, and operations—across merchant domains including store onboarding, menu and pricing management, order acceptance and status management, and settlement and sales analytics.
  • Lead technical decisions and design highly available, high-performance backend architectures capable of handling merchant data.
  • Establish standards for code quality, performance, and security, and continuously improve incident management, on-call rotations, and post-mortem processes.
  • Manage schedules, resources, risks, and priorities across multiple parallel projects.
  • Build a high-performing engineering organization by recruiting, coaching, evaluating, and supporting the career growth of backend engineers.
  • Partner with Product, Operations, Legal, and global teams to align requirements and make trade-off decisions.
  • Improve engineering productivity and system operational workflows by adopting modern development practices, including AI-driven environments.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience developing and operating large-scale services using Java and the Spring Framework.
  • Experience operating services across multiple countries, accommodating country-specific settlement and tax regulations, and leading localization efforts.
  • Experience building B2B SaaS, e-commerce merchant platforms, merchant portals, or settlement and payment domains.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues such as Kafka, and optimizing JPA, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
  • Technical leadership with strong influence across the organization and adjacent teams.
  • Experience elevating engineering quality standards, code review practices, and overall development processes.

About the Company

Coupang

Sells goods online with its own overnight delivery

Coupang runs one of South Korea's largest online stores, selling groceries, electronics, household goods and fashion to consumers and small businesses. Rather than relying on outside carriers, it delivers most orders through its own warehouses and drivers, and its Rocket Delivery service brings millions of items to doorsteps overnight or the same day. Shoppers order through the Coupang app or website, and the company earns money from its own retail sales, commissions and fulfillment fees from outside sellers, and a paid membership. Coupang was founded in Seoul in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, with most of its operations and staff in South Korea.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
2010

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