Director, Back-End Engineering

Coupang · Hyderabad · 12+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Java

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- 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.
- 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
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

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

Responsibilities

- 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.
- 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

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