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Senior Manager, Back-End Engineering

Open 61d posting dated 6 days ago

Summary

Leads engineering teams to build scalable, reliable e-commerce systems in Java/AWS, driving growth and operational excellence while mentoring managers and collaborating with product and business leaders.

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we 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 entrepxreneurs 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

In this role as a Senior Manager Engineering, you will help in building and developing teams, you will also support a rapidly growing business and ensure we are building highly available, reliable and extendable products. You will collaborate closely with Product & Business peers to break tradeoffs between growth and profitability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership and technical direction to the engineering organizations and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable, extendable and fault-tolerant systems
  • Hire experienced individual contributors to grow a high performance and impact-driven organization
  • Be a thought leader and collaborate closely with Business, Product & Engineering leaders to identify opportunities to drive business growth and improve efficiencies across various aspects of the business
  • Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineering leaders to solve complex business problems
  • Dive deep to solve critical system issues. Ideally identify them before they happen and device plan to address them
  • Foster a culture that continuously innovates through frequent product iterations (Agile/Scrum) and help the team develop their Agile practices further
  • Drive and improve the operational excellence of your organization. Own definition, measurement, and reporting of operational metrics for your products & services
  • Develop, mentor, and coach managers and tech leaders on career development and professional growth

Minimum Qualifications

  • 12+ years of industry experience of increasing responsibility leading engineering teams
  • 5+ years of experience in managing software development with hands-on architectural experience in delivering innovative products and mission critical systems.
  • Demonstrated experience in creating a vision, influencing cross-functionally and driving a technology organization to meet ambitious goals
  • Experience leading global distributed teams, with exceptional abilities to attract, recruit, retain andscale a high-performance engineering organization
  • Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products& services. Experience working in Java stack, AWS cloud and big data
  • Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. High on bias for action
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field

Type of work model

  • Hybrid - Our Hybrid work model: Coupang hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration that acts a catalyst to enrich the experience of employees. Employees are required to work at least 3 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 2 days a week, depending on the role requirement. Some businesses may require more time in office due to nature of work.

Details to consider

  • Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.

Privacy Notice

  • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below.
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  • Coupang Corporation or its affiliates and subsidiaries* (collectively referred to as “Coupang”) does not collect or use any personal information other than the types of information specified in this Consent. Such information is collected and used as per the applicable law including the extant Digital Personal Data and Protection Act, 2023. (“Data Protection Act”) Please ensure that your resume does not include any personal information other than the types specified in this Consent. choose one
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  • 2. (Optional) Name, contact information, email address, nationality, educational background, work experience, qualifications, national merit status (for special hiring program applicants only), relative’s name/relationship/team and application history are collected and used on an ongoing basis for recruitment purposes and may be provided to any of our affiliates and subsidiaries*, other than the company to which you originally applied, for the purpose of reviewing and conducting recruitment for similar positions. Personal information collected and provided will be retained for the duration of the year-round recruitment retention period defined in the Privacy Policy. You may refuse to provide consent, but such refusal may prevent you from applying. choose one
  • 3. (Optional) Recordings of the interview process and transcriptions of interview audio maybe collected and used for the following purposes: i) to record the interview process, ii) to transcribe and document interview audio, iii) to summarize interview results, iv) to verify the interview process and evaluation results, v) to improve the hiring procedures, vi) to check candidate fit for other open positions, vii) to review past interview records. Collected personal information are retained for 4 years from the notification of hiring result, and then deleted. You may refuse to provide this consent, and refusal will not affect the recruitment process. choose one
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  • 1. I understand that working with Relatives in the Coupang group of companies (collectively, the "Coupang Group") -- where they can influence each other’s work -- can potentially create conflicts of interest. Therefore, such a situation requires prior approval from the People Operations. In view of the above, I hereby confirm that I DO NOT have any Relatives working in any company within the Coupang Group or serving on the Board of Directors of any company within the Coupang Group; choose one
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