Ably
E-commerce Platforms · Apparel & Fashion Brands
28open roles
$70Mlatest round · Series B · Jun 2021 · 5 yr ago
1backers · Insight Partners
34 daysmedian time a role stays open
Overview
Ably is a South Korean fashion commerce platform where sellers and shoppers buy and sell clothing and style products. The platform serves around 10 million monthly users and hires backend engineers for orders and payments, product designers, business development managers and interns. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 28 open roles at Ably. Ably is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The latest round is Series B of $70M, announced in 2021.
- Open roles
- 28Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Seoul, South KoreaAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 200+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $70MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Series B · $70M · Jun 29, 2021Press report · businesswire.com
- Technologies in its job postings
- 23Named in its job postings
How Ably hires
Truth index
C 66/100
Median time to fill
34 days
Ghost roles
57%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Ably scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 28 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 57% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 34 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$70M
1 round on record
Latest round
$70M
Series B · Jun 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
28
open roles
Backers
1
Insight Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
64 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 28
First sales or marketing role 제휴 영업 담당자
Jan 2022
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Jun 29, 2021
Raised a round Series B $70M
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Jun 2021 | $70M | — | businesswire.com |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Seokhoon Kang대표이사company's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
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In office · Full-Time · Seoul
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Kotlin
Django
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MySQL
Redis
ScyllaDB
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Datadog
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Grafana
GitHub
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Kotlin
Django
Databases
MySQL
Redis
ScyllaDB
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Datadog
ArgoCD
Kubernetes
Grafana
GitHub
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
26/100
Slowing
Open positions
28
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 38% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
27% ▲
Finance
13% ▼
Management
13% ▲
Operations
13% ▼
AI/ML
7% ▼
Leadership
7% ▲
Financials
Total raised
$70M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2021 | $70M | Details |
People
Seokhoon Kang
대표이사
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ably over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
79/100
Languages
Kotlin
Python
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
Django
FastAPI
PyTorch
Ray
Databases
ElasticSearch
MySQL
Redis
ScyllaDB
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
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Datadog
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Full Ably tech stack
23 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Seoul
Seoul
South Korea
HQ
성수(임팩센터)
30 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Finance, Management
서울특별시 서초구 강남대로 465, A,B동 6층,9층,A동 17층 (서초동)
How to cite this page
Alion, "Ably: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/ably-team
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