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Coupang

Staff Back-end Engineer (Rocket Pay)

Coupang · Seoul, South Korea

Posted 29 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
29 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 Staff Back-end Engineer at Coupang Pay, you will define the technical direction of core payment domains and design reliable fintech systems that handle large-scale traffic. Your role involves owning the technical aspects of payment services, ensuring system stability, scalability, security, and performance, while collaborating with various teams to improve operational stability. You will also contribute to elevating the technical standards of the organization through code and design reviews.

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

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What you need

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Ability to design and operate large-scale distributed systems based on Java/Kotlin and the Spring Framework
  • Experience owning and proactively driving improvements for one or more complex services or domains
  • Ability to design systems with strong consideration for performance, reliability, data consistency, and security
  • Experience structuring ambiguous problems and making technical decisions that resulted in tangible business impact
  • Ability to understand customer experience and business requirements and translate them into well-architected technical solutions with a high level of ownership

Nice to have

  • Experience leading architecture design and migration in JPA- and MSA-based environments
  • Experience in development and operations within the Payment / Fintech domain
  • Experience responding to incidents, building monitoring systems, and improving SLAs in high-traffic environments
  • Experience handling large-scale data processing with strong guarantees around settlement and reconciliation accuracy
  • Experience demonstrating technical leadership in agile software development environments

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Job posting may close early if positions are filled
  • Full-time position includes a 12-week probation period which may be adjusted as necessary

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

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