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Senior Staff Backend Engineer – GOT/Picking
| Company | Coupang |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $159000 – $324000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
- 10+ years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications for low latency servicing and messaging systems using complex event processing.
- 10+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Experience building complex, high-performance, highly available distributed software systems successfully delivered to customers.
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to define mission, vision, and roadmaps.
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects involving Inventory and Promise.
- Independently come up with quality architecture and design of systems for new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
- Navigate and alleviate technical obstacles and blockers at the organizational level.
- Participate in the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale global software applications, systems, platforms, services, or technologies.
- Write code when necessary to lead by example and help with high-priority projects.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and ‘move with urgency.’
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the Fulfillment Technology space at scale, especially within the Picking domain (Planning, Route optimization, real-time inventory tracking, and automation)
- Experience with Kafka, Stream Processing, Complex Event Processing, data synchronization between systems, low latency serving systems, and inventory management.
- Experience in building strongly consistent and low latency data synchronization and processing systems.
- Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high-performing software engineers and keep them motivated.
- Demonstrated leadership in a cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.
- Track record of developing engineers through various career stages and building high-performance teams.
