About Coupang Play

Coupang Play is an OTT video streaming service. We offer a wide range of content, including Original Series, TV Shows, Movies, and Sports.

We are in the business of delivering exceptional storytelling. We produce award-winning scripted and unscripted Original Series, such as “Boyhood”, “Anna”, and “SNL Korea”. We believe Sports can also be elevated by creative storytelling. Play is now an authoritative destination for Sports, broadcasting K-League, La Liga, Bundesliga, F1, NFL, and other leading leagues and tournaments. We also offer some of the latest movies that were just released in local theaters, bringing more exceptional storytelling to our Customers.

To ensure that we deliver all content seamlessly, we invest in Engineering, Product, and Design. Coupang Play is available on all mobile devices, tablets, PC, Smart TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. Our teams keep optimizing how Customers discover and stream both VOD and Live content. That includes investments in frontend, backend, and infrastructural developments. We also embrace Machine Learning to refine our CX.

We are still very early in our growth stage. If you enjoy solving complex problems using industry-leading technology or unconventional business approaches, please join us. We are building a world-class team of problem-solvers, all dedicated to delivering exceptional storytelling to our Customers.

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Staff iOS Engineer to join our Client Platform team. In this role, you will build the foundational frameworks, architecture, and tooling and power all iOS platforms across Coupang Play – including mobile, tablet and Apple TV.

You will work closely with engineering teams to define standards, improve performance, enhance reliability, and enable faster feature development. This is a high impact position that shapes the technical direction of our iOS ecosystem and accelerates innovation across the company.

What You Will Do

• Design, build and maintain core iOS platform frameworks, libraries, and shared components used across multiple teams.

• Lead initiatives to improve app performance, startup time and memory usage across devices

• Drive architecture modernization (modularization, dependency management, scalable design patterns)

• Build and enhance developer productivity tools, including CI/CD improvements, build time optimization, and testing frameworks.

• Implement and maintain observability tooling, including logging metrics, crash alerts and real time monitoring

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure smooth app releases

• Ensure app compliance with App Store policies, security requirements and industry best practices

• Contribute to globalization readiness, including localization support and configuration systems

• Conduct design reviews, code reviews and guide best practices for iOS development

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of iOS development experience using Swift and Objective-C

• Strong understanding of iOS internals, UIKits, SwiftUI, concurrency, networking and persistent storage

• Solid understanding of app performance optimization (CPU/GPU, memory, startup)

• Hands-on experience with App Store deployment, build pipelines, certificates/provisioning, and automated testing

• Familiarity with instrumentation tools, analytics and crash reporting platforms

• Prior experience in large-scale consumer apps

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TVOS development or multi-device iOS ecosystem (MacOS, etc)

• Strong background in platform engineering, SDK development, or shared framework architecture

• Knowledge of CI/CD systems, A/B testing platforms or remote config systems

• Experience implementing analytics event schema, tracking governance, or logging frameworks

Recruitment Process and Others

Recruitment Process

• Application Review - 1st Virtual Interview - 2nd Virtual Interview – Offer

• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.

• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.

• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.

• Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.

• Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.

• Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.

Privacy Notice

• Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below.

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