Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.  

Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.  

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, "How did I ever live without Coupang?" Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation as a leading and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have maintained since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people who like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

About the Team

Our eCommerce Engineering group aims to reshape our customers' shopping experience, ultimately making them say, "How did I ever live without Coupang?" Composed of a strong engineering team with diverse skill sets drawn from global talent, eCommerce Engineering is evolving at an unparalleled pace to become a world-class eCommerce platform in the markets we serve.

eCommerce Engineering is responsible for Coupang's core eCommerce services, as well as new emerging business lines that Coupang continually invests in to wow our customers, including Coupang Eats, Coupang Fresh, and more. Our vision is to build a world-class eCommerce platform by obsessing over reliable and effortless shopping experiences, powered by a highly productive engineering team. Our core values are Customer Focus, Ownership, and Collaboration.

Role Overview

The Pricing team is one of the core pillars of Coupang's business and is responsible for determining the price of every product sold on Coupang. Serving hundreds of millions of requests every day, our mission is to build and maintain highly scalable, extensible platforms that are also highly available and robust.

As part of our Pricing team, you will directly architect and implement our next-generation pricing determination platforms. You will help the team adopt industry best practices in software development and operations while elevating their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experiences in new global markets. Working closely with engineers across multiple geographic locations, you'll solve challenging problems at scale with high reliability. Your efforts will directly impact tens of millions of users every single day.

What You Will Do

• Serve as a hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise in open-source technologies and distributed systems
• Design layered applications and drive the highest quality of architecture and design for pricing and commerce systems
• Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to understand problems, develop solutions, and lead engineers on mission-critical projects that resolve complex business challenges
• Define roadmaps and a technical vision for the scalable and robust growth of the pricing platform to support business expansion
• Collaborate with other Coupang engineering teams to build extensible services that unlock opportunities for innovation

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in software design and development
• Strong experience with distributed systems and extensive experience building large-scale enterprise platforms
• Exceptional analytical and deep-dive skills; a bar raiser for engineering excellence
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java or similar JVM-based languages; experience with Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with event-driven architectures, stream processing (Kafka, Flink), and real-time data pipelines
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and DevOps best practices
• Experience working in e-commerce, marketplace, or high-traffic consumer-facing platforms

Why Join Coupang

• Work on systems that serve hundreds of millions of daily requests, directly impacting tens of millions of users
• Collaborate with world-class engineers across global offices in a culture that values ownership and innovation
• Shape the future of e-commerce in one of the world's most dynamic and tech-forward markets

Req # 8937

Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.  

Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.