Sr. Staff Engineer, Rocket Growth
Coupang · Bengaluru · 12+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Java, Python, Spring, Backend
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- Rocket Growth is the 2P marketplace at Coupang.
- The Supply Chain team within Rocket Growth has the mission to simplify and reduce cost of doing business for Sellers.
- Our technological solutions enable sellers to ship their inventory to Coupang and let Coupang handle the rest - fulfilment, customer returns, used reselling, vendor returns, etc.
- As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, and building next generation products.
- Reporting to the Senior Director, this role is for a technical lead who will help influence the technical north star for all of the Supply Chain domain projects within Rocket Growth, as well as with internal and external partners.
- This role is highly technical, but also requires deep business acumen and active participation and partnership with Product to shape what we build.
- If you thrive working alongside Product to help define what we build, are deeply technical to understand the nuances of Supply Chain and the plethora of systems that typically are part of it - then this is the perfect role for you.
- Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of the system.
- Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the product
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
- Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
- Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design.
- Deep-dive and handle critical system issues.
- Basic Qualification
- Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Minimum 12 years of experience working on software design and development in Java, Python.
- Proven track record of designing and building large-scale distributed systems in the Supply Chain space.
- Large system architecture design and development experience.
- Experience with cloud computing with AWS.
- Experience of developing container-based testing environment.
- Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment.
Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of Supply Chain Domain
- Deep expertise in AWS ecosystem (compute, storage, distributed services)
- Mentor & junior engineers and influence team architecture
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Hybrid
Qualifications
- Deep understanding of Supply Chain Domain
- Deep expertise in AWS ecosystem (compute, storage, distributed services)
- Mentor & junior engineers and influence team architecture
- Excellent Communication Skills Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Rocket Growth is the 2P marketplace at Coupang.
- The Supply Chain team within Rocket Growth has the mission to simplify and reduce cost of doing business for Sellers.
- Our technological solutions enable sellers to ship their inventory to Coupang and let Coupang handle the rest - fulfilment, customer returns, used reselling, vendor returns, etc.
- As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, and building next generation products.
- Reporting to the Senior Director, this role is for a technical lead who will help influence the technical north star for all of the Supply Chain domain projects within Rocket Growth, as well as with internal and external partners.
- This role is highly technical, but also requires deep business acumen and active participation and partnership with Product to shape what we build.
- If you thrive working alongside Product to help define what we build, are deeply technical to understand the nuances of Supply Chain and the plethora of systems that typically are part of it - then this is the perfect role for you.
- Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of the system.
- Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the product
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
- Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
- Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design.
- Deep-dive and handle critical system issues.
- Basic Qualification
- Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Minimum 12 years of experience working on software design and development in Java, Python.
- Proven track record of designing and building large-scale distributed systems in the Supply Chain space.
- Large system architecture design and development experience.
- Experience with cloud computing with AWS.
- Experience of developing container-based testing environment.
- Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment.