Senior Software Engineer
Job details
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 13, 2026
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About this role
Company Introduction
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up.
We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations.
At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
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.
Role Overview (Drafter
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You will be responsible for building core catalog and settlement systems for hundreds of thousands of merchants which directly impact the selection for millions of customers who order on the Coupang Eats platform. You need to closely partner with business stakeholders and deliver growth in a fast-paced environment.
· Serve as a key engineer who makes decisions on the system design
· Develop sustainable services to grow by designing scalable architectures and systems
· Build this ecosystem with exciting tech stacks such as Cloud Native (AWS), MSA, Spring boot, JPA, Elastic stack, Docker, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra etc
· Obsesses over data consistency and availability to guarantee great merchant experience
· Taking responsibility of code review/design review, and raise up the bar of engineering excellence
· Collaborate and communicate seamlessly with team members and stakeholders
We are a truly global team located at Seoul, Shanghai/Beijing, and Bangalore
· Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related fields
· 6+ years of coding experience in Java or other object-oriented programming languages
· 4+ years of solid work with distributed systems, DB schema design, and data processing
· Experience design and building large scale services, and operating experiences
· Proactive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
· Excellent oral and written communication skills in English