The Opportunity:
Lead Software Engineer is the a role in our technology organization working together with individual contributors and senior leadership. Our Lead engineers are heavily involved in the hiring and mentoring process and are the go-to people who design and implement new systems and components. We are looking for people who are passionate to take on more responsibility and driving major architectural changes in Agoda. It’s expected from you in this role as Lead Software Engineer to push Agoda forward technically by adopting new technologies and setting higher standards.
In this Role, you’ll get to:
1. Maintain ownership and responsibility of mission critical systems
2. Be hands on – build high volume platforms using cutting-edge technologies like React and GraphQL
3. Mentor and coach other software engineers
4. Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
5. Design and lead crucial technical projects and initiatives cross teams and departments
6. Stay on the leading edge of technical know-how, industry trends and drive technical innovations
What you’ll Need to Succeed:
7. 8 years of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS
8. A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a quantitative field is required; a master’s degree is preferred. Alternatively, a minimum of 10 years of experience in the relevant field is acceptable
9. Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
10. Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
11. Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
12. You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack.
13. Great communication and coordination skills
14. Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
15. You have a good command of the English language.
It’s Great if you have:
16. Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
17. Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc.)
18. Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus
19. Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
20. Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization
21. Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD
22. Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
23. Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
24. Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
25. Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
26. Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data