Engineering Manager, Back End (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get to Know our Team

In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault‑tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission‑critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state‑of‑the‑art CI/CD and testing techniques to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self‑healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state‑of‑the‑art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

The Opportunity

The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on – technically excellent, with solid engineering principles – and exhibits strong leadership and people development skills. We are looking for world class development managers to lead one or more of our engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Be hands on – write code, review code, and give expert level coaching and guidance to engineers.


• Maintain a love of engineering and passion for building things elegantly and at scale; stay current with industry trends and hold strong opinions about system architecture.


• Execute full‑stack engineering: have solid experience in all parts of the technology stack – infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others.


• Develop people: inspire those around you so they can achieve their potential; identify and integrate high‑talent hires into the business.

Qualifications

• Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, C#).


• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable, and fault‑tolerant distributed systems.


• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility.


• Proficient in lower‑level engineering (garbage collection, context switching, threading).


• Experience with DevOps culture – agility, leanness, automation, CI/CD.


• Good understanding of application security.


• Passionate about technology and the Internet.


• Have worked in a successful agile development team.


• Have run engineering teams before with five or more direct reports.


• Able to operate autonomously: make decisions, set KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership.


• Practice data‑driven decision making.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in more than one programming language.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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