Director, Back-End Engineering

About this role

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 Director of 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