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[Instant Commerce] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

Coupang · Beijing, China

Posted 27 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
27 days
Coupang's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
1% of Coupang's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Coupang
high
365 stale, 14 reposted of 717 open
Hiring momentum
1065 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Coupang's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Coupang.

About this role

As a Senior Staff Back-end Engineer at Coupang, you will lead technical initiatives within the Eats Engineering team, focusing on building scalable and fault-tolerant systems for various products and services. Your role involves collaborating with senior leadership to develop technical strategies, mentoring engineers, and driving mission-critical projects to enhance customer and partner experiences. You will also engage in hands-on coding and problem-solving to ensure system reliability and performance.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Coupang as an employer.

What you need

  • 10+ years of industry experience building B2C scale products, preferably in Java stack and AWS cloud environment
  • 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles
  • Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products and services
  • Solid technical expertise and experience in Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches and performance tuning
  • Experience collaborating and driving initiatives across globally distributed teams
  • Data driven, business centric, and a high bias for action and impact

Nice to have

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ecommerce / Food Delivery product development experience
  • Experience in ML platform and MLOps
  • Prompt engineering, Agent framework experience

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Job posting may close early if positions are filled
  • Coupang reserves the right to rescind offers for false information in applications

Summarised from Coupang's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Coupang on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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