Background
Gift cards mixed external-partner flows with Kurly Mall flows, making them hard to handle with a single structure.
Use cases were diverse — B2C orders, B2B purchases, corporate card and individual bulk purchases — so each required its own design and operational standards.
Outcomes
- Supported 4 use cases: external-partner B2B, Kurly Mall B2C, corporate card, and individual bulk purchase
- Clarified flow and responsibility boundaries by separating the gateway and core servers for external partners
- Ensured consistency in asynchronous flows by designing the gift card lifecycle to be processed via Kafka
Details
Owned the design, development, and operation of gift cards end-to-end — including planning research and communication with partners, Kurly, and outsourced companies.
- Developed the contract/product relationships and the gift card issuance flow
- Designed the separation of gateway and core servers for external partners, and the separation of the B2C Kurly Mall order flow from the B2B purchase flow
- Designed Kafka-based processing for the gift card lifecycle
Overall architecture: external-partner gateway/core separation, B2C/B2B flow split, and Kafka.
Sequence for purchasing, then issuing and sending a gift card (order polling → send → notification).
Kafka events published per gift card action (issue, send, resend, use, terminate).