Principal, Back-End Engineer

Coupang · Bengaluru · 10+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Java

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Coupang Eats Engineering builds various products & services for our Customers, Stores (Restaurants/Cafes), Couriers and internal operations.
- It’s a complex multi-faceted problem that requires optimization across the business (customer experience, merchant management, delivery efficiency & effectiveness) to provide fast and cost-effective experience to our customers and partners.
- As a senior technical leader in Eats Engineering, you will drive cross-team initiatives that are critical to business growth while ensuring engineering excellence.
- You will ensure all of Eats Engineering platforms are scalable, extendable, and highly available.
- You will be comfortable getting into code level details with other engineers and building software.
- Provide technical leadership to Eats Engineering organization and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Engage with senior leadership and product owner(s) in developing and executing technical strategy and roadmap ensuring scalability and simplicity
- Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineers to solve complex business problems
- Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture, design patterns and ongoing simplification of the system landscape
- Dive deep to solve critical system issues.
- Ideally identify them before they happen and device a plan to address them
- Help recruit top tier senior engineers to develop and grow a high performance and impact-driven organization
- Develop, mentor, and coach engineers on architecture, design and engineering best practices
- Communicate clearly and concisely with the team members, peers and leadership team
- Own definition, measurement, and reporting of system and operational metrics
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of industry experience building B2C scale products, preferably in Java stack and AWS cloud environment
- 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience in driving technical vision and execution at an organization / business unit level
- Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products and services
- Solid technical expertise and experience in Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches and performance tuning
- Experience collaborating and driving initiatives across globally distributed teams
- Data driven, business centric, and a high bias for action and impact.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
- Ecommerce / Food Delivery product development experience, a big plus

Qualifications

- 10+ years of industry experience building B2C scale products, preferably in Java stack and AWS cloud environment
- 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience in driving technical vision and execution at an organization / business unit level
- Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products and services
- Solid technical expertise and experience in Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches and performance tuning
- Experience collaborating and driving initiatives across globally distributed teams
- Data driven, business centric, and a high bias for action and impact.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
- Ecommerce / Food Delivery product development experience, a big plus

Responsibilities

- Coupang Eats Engineering builds various products & services for our Customers, Stores (Restaurants/Cafes), Couriers and internal operations.
- It’s a complex multi-faceted problem that requires optimization across the business (customer experience, merchant management, delivery efficiency & effectiveness) to provide fast and cost-effective experience to our customers and partners.
- As a senior technical leader in Eats Engineering, you will drive cross-team initiatives that are critical to business growth while ensuring engineering excellence.
- You will ensure all of Eats Engineering platforms are scalable, extendable, and highly available.
- You will be comfortable getting into code level details with other engineers and building software.
- Provide technical leadership to Eats Engineering organization and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Engage with senior leadership and product owner(s) in developing and executing technical strategy and roadmap ensuring scalability and simplicity
- Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineers to solve complex business problems
- Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture, design patterns and ongoing simplification of the system landscape
- Dive deep to solve critical system issues.
- Ideally identify them before they happen and device a plan to address them
- Help recruit top tier senior engineers to develop and grow a high performance and impact-driven organization
- Develop, mentor, and coach engineers on architecture, design and engineering best practices
- Communicate clearly and concisely with the team members, peers and leadership team
- Own definition, measurement, and reporting of system and operational metrics

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