Principal, Back-End Engineer

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Bengaluru; Seoul, South KoreaPosted today

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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

Lead Eats Engineering on scalable,fault-tolerant platform architecture and delivery
Partner with senior leadership to define technical strategy and execute the roadmap
Drive mission-critical cross-functional projects solving complex delivery marketplace problems

What they want

Ten plus years building B2C scale products,preferably Java on AWS cloud
Seven plus years in technical leadership driving vision at organization or BU level
Hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable,highly available products and services

Nice to have

Ecommerce or food delivery product development experience at scale

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 Eats principal track in Seoul or Bengaluru; Java/AWS B2C food delivery at Coupang scale,expect heavy cross-site coordination.

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