Staff Software Engineer

Coupanginternal

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Bengaluru Until 8/22/2026 First posted November 4, 2025 Last posted June 10, 2026
Job description

Introduction

Coupang Eats is Coupang's food delivery service and the fastest-growing delivery platform in South Korea and Japan. Having burst onto the domestic delivery scene in 2019, Coupang Eats surprised the world again in 2024 with "unlimited free delivery." We will never stop challenging ourselves to build a better future to make everyone wonder, "How did I ever live without Coupang Eats?"Coupang Eats gives its employees ample opportunities to grow. If you want to grow along with experts in their respective fields, join us now.

 

Job Description

As part of Merchant Systems engineering organization, we build the Merchant app, Point of Sale app, tools for Stores and operations center. We aspire to provide fast and seamless order processing and management experience for our merchants. You will be responsible for building core catalog and settlement systems for hundreds of thousands of merchants which directly impact the selection for millions of customers who order on the Coupang Eats platform. You need to closely partner with business stakeholders and deliver growth in a fast-paced environment.

· Serve as a key engineer who makes decisions on the system design
·      Develop sustainable services to grow by designing scalable architectures and systems
·      Build this ecosystem with exciting tech stacks such as Cloud Native (AWS), MSA, Spring boot, JPA, Elastic stack, Docker, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra etc
·      Obsesses over data consistency and availability to guarantee great merchant experience
·      Taking responsibility of code review/design review, and raise up the bar of engineering excellence
·      Collaborate and communicate seamlessly with team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications-
·       Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related fields
·       Over 10 years of experience in back-end development
·       Proficient in Java/Kotlin and Spring framework, data processing frameworks (Spark, Airflow, etc.)
·       Competency in object-oriented design and big data processing
·       Experience in designing, building, and operating catalog system, reporting system
·       Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to drive clear and fruitful technical discussions
·       Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
·       Capability to mentor junior engineers and influence team architecture

About this role

Summary

Develop scalable backend systems for merchant platforms, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor engineers.

Job title

Staff Software Engineer

Experience level

10+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Bengaluru, on-site, no remote work specified.

Salary

$150k+

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

JavaKotlinSpringAWSKafkaRedisMySQLCassandraobject-oriented designbig data processing

Preferred skills

SparkAirflowtechnical mentorshipsystem architecture

Specializations

backendscalabilitycloud nativedistributed systemsbig data
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

On-site City