Staff, Back-end Engineer (Global Operations Technology)

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Seoul, South KoreaPosted 2 days ago

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Market pay check

Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

Design system architecture for Global Operations Technology delivery platforms.
Develop Java-based front and back office web services.
Identify dependencies across multiple domains and build system integrations between them.

What they want

7+ years overall programming experience with Java and Spring Framework.
5+ years hands-on web application development and operations.
Passion for high-availability systems handling large-scale traffic in MSA.

Nice to have

Microservices and cloud development experience.
Asynchronous event-driven architecture for large-scale processing.
ORM (JPA,Hibernate) and domain modeling experience.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Korean not required
English friendliness: High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
Context: Coupang's last-mile delivery engine; high-pressure peak periods around Rocket Delivery SLAs and Korean public holidays.

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