Principal, Back-End Engineer

Overview

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coupang Eats Engineering, building scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available products and services.

What you'll do

• Provide technical leadership across the Eats Engineering organization.
• Develop and execute technical strategy and roadmaps with senior leaders and product owners.
• Drive mission-critical projects across stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Own architecture planning, design patterns, and system simplification.
• Resolve critical system issues and plan preventative improvements.
• Recruit, mentor, and coach senior engineers.
• Define, measure, and report system and operational metrics.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of industry experience building B2C-scale products.
• 7+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Experience driving technical vision and execution at an organization or business-unit level.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable, highly available products and services.
• Technical expertise in Java, system and data architecture, distributed computing and storage, messaging, caches, and performance tuning.
• Experience collaborating across globally distributed teams.
• Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Java stack and AWS cloud environment.
• E-commerce or food-delivery product development experience.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.