Staff Backend Engineer
Coupang · Hyderabad · 8+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Java, Python, Spring, Backend
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, data processing pipelines and building next generation platform and products.
- You will help the team to bring industry best practices in software development and operations while improving their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in new global markets.
- Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you’ll solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability.
- Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day!
- Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of data pipeline and system.
- Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the online serving platform.
- 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.
- Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock
- innumerable opportunities for innovations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Minimum 8 years of experience working on software design and development in Java,Python.
- Hands-on experience with designing, building, and deploying scalable, high available systems.
- 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
- Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Minimum 8 years of experience working on software design and development in Java,Python.
- Hands-on experience with designing, building, and deploying scalable, high available systems.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, data processing pipelines and building next generation platform and products.
- You will help the team to bring industry best practices in software development and operations while improving their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in new global markets.
- Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you’ll solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability.
- Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day!
- Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of data pipeline and system.
- Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the online serving platform.
- 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.
- Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.