Staff Engineer - Backend (Finance Platform)

Coupang · Bengaluru · 8+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Java, Spring, Backend

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Finance Platform Engineering (FPE) at Coupang builds a centralized, scalable finance technology platform powering mission‑critical financial systems across the company.
- The team owns the end‑to‑end finance engineering charter, designing and operating highly reliable platforms that process tens of millions of events per business per day.
- A Staff Engineer owns a broad charter, leading architecture and execution for partner settlement, payout, and core finance platforms at Coupang scale.
- In the near term, you will drive delivery of a new end‑to‑end partner settlement and payout platform, while evolving the core finance platform.
- Over the next 6–12 months, you will lead a long‑running settlement program, drive migrations, and expand the platform to enable new business growth.
- You will work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders, setting technical vision and high engineering standards across a team of 25+ engineers.
- 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:
- Minimum 8 years of experience working on software design and development in Java.
- 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.
- Hybrid / Onsite / Remote working

Qualifications

- Minimum 8 years of experience working on software design and development in Java.
- 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.
- Hybrid / Onsite / Remote working

Responsibilities

- Finance Platform Engineering (FPE) at Coupang builds a centralized, scalable finance technology platform powering mission‑critical financial systems across the company.
- The team owns the end‑to‑end finance engineering charter, designing and operating highly reliable platforms that process tens of millions of events per business per day.
- A Staff Engineer owns a broad charter, leading architecture and execution for partner settlement, payout, and core finance platforms at Coupang scale.
- In the near term, you will drive delivery of a new end‑to‑end partner settlement and payout platform, while evolving the core finance platform.
- Over the next 6–12 months, you will lead a long‑running settlement program, drive migrations, and expand the platform to enable new business growth.
- You will work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders, setting technical vision and high engineering standards across a team of 25+ engineers.
- 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.

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