Coupang

Sr. Manager, Backend Engineering (Payment)

Seoul, South KoreaPosted 9 days ago

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What you'd do

Manage Coupang Pay product engineering teams shipping the CouPay payment system
Lead architecture, code reviews, and quality across mission-critical fintech services
Partner with accounting, treasury, and fintech teams to build payment back office

What they want

Minimum 10 years of professional software development experience in industry
2+ years of management experience including mentor or tech lead time
Experience collaborating with product or program management teams

Nice to have

CS bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent practical engineering experience
Payment domain background plus Java, Spring, or Kotlin experience
Large-scale global system architecture and AWS or Kubernetes operations

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Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Business-level Korean required
English friendliness: Medium: English JD, mixed-language workplace
Context: Coupang Pay senior eng manager role; bilingual KR/EN environment, sponsorship typical for senior hires.

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