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Staff Backend Engineer

Coupang · Bengaluru

Posted 12 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
12 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 Backend Engineer at Coupang, you will lead technical projects focused on enhancing the Supply Chain team's capabilities within the Rocket Growth department. Your role involves designing systems for microservices and machine learning pipelines, mentoring team members, and influencing multiple teams with your expertise in distributed systems and architecture. You will also tackle complex problems, ensuring high performance and reliability in the systems you develop.

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

  • 8+ years of experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems with strict latency and reliability requirements
  • Excellent hands-on coding ability in Java or other similar backend systems at scale
  • Deep understanding of system design — API design, concurrency, data modelling, caching strategies, messaging, service-to-service communication (gRPC, REST)
  • Strong code review skills — ability to identify subtle correctness, performance, and reliability issues in complex codebases
  • Experience with production-grade systems handling high QPS, large data volumes, or Tier-1 SLAs
  • Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka at scale

Nice to have

  • Experience in ecommerce, fulfilment, supply chain, logistics, inventory, order management, or planning systems
  • Experience with optimization systems — solvers (CPLEX, OR-Tools), decision engines, constraint programming, or data-science-integrated production systems
  • Experience with Agentic AI tools for development and code review — using AI-assisted coding agents (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Devin, Claude Code) to accelerate development velocity, improve code review quality, and automate repetitive engineering tasks
  • Experience with Spec-Driven Development — defining system behaviour through specifications (OpenAPI/Swagger, Protocol Buffers, API-first design, contract-first development) before implementation, ensuring well-defined contracts between services

Worth weighing

  • Hybrid work model requires at least 3 days in the office per week, which may not suit all candidates
  • No specific salary or benefits information provided in the posting

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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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