Engineering Manager, Back End (Bangkok based, relocation provided)
Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration.
We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world. Our purpose is to bridge the world through travel, believing it allows people to enjoy, learn, and experience more of the amazing world we live in.
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.
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.
The Opportunity:
- Be hands-on, writing and reviewing code, giving expert-level coaching and guidance to engineers.
- Have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale.
- Do full-stack engineering, with solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client-side, back-end, performance, data, and others.
- Develop people, inspiring those around them to achieve their potential.
What you'll Need to Succeed:
- Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#).
- Solid 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).
- DevOps culture – Agility, Leanness, Automation, CI/CD.
- Good understanding of application security.
- Passionate about technology and the Internet.
- Must have worked in a successful agile development team.
- Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports.
- Able to operate autonomously, making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership.
- Practices data-driven decision making.
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.
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