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. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation package is provided)** **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 in order 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 though, 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. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems. * Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, Influence and coach distributed team of engineers * Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices. * Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working. * Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions. * Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes. * Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same. * Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * 10+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using JVM tech stack (Java, Scala OR Kotlin) * Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved * Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs * Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures * Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding * A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices * Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team * A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence * Excellent written and verbal English communication skills **What We Offer** **Full Relocation and Onboarding Support:** * Visa sponsorship for you and your family * Flights, settling-in allowance, and temporary housing * Dedicated relocation and settling-in advisors * Relocation buddy program and community events **Family & Expat Benefits:** * Partner & children support (school search, legal, etc.) * International health insurance * Flexible home visit support **Agoda Perks:** * Hybrid working (Bangkok HQ) * Professional growth and learning budget * Employee resource groups for every culture and background **Get to know first-hand testimonials of Agodans relocating from around the world to Bangkok:**[**https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/**](https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/) **Agoda’s Engineering Blog:**[**https://medium.com/agoda-engineering**](https://medium.com/agoda-engineering) **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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **Disclaimer** We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.
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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 Engineering department, we build the scalable and fault-tolerant systems. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: website, mobile apps, affiliate apis, inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, finance and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD, experimentation and advanced testing techniques in order 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 React, Redux state management, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, data technologies like Kafka, Aerospike and Big Data, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, 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 innovating on the latest fintech idea or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of our Engineering team. ### The Opportunity: As a Senior Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead multiple teams or a large engineering organization, driving technical direction, organizational scale, and business impact. Unlike the Engineering Manager role, this position focuses more on leading managers, shaping strategy, and driving cross-team execution. This role also offers the opportunity to lead teams working on fintech-related platforms and transaction-heavy systems, including areas connected to payments, financial operations, and other business-critical services where scalability, resilience, security, and reliability are essential. ### In this Role, you’ll get to: * Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization. * Manage Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders. * Drive strategic, cross-team initiatives and major engineering programs. * Set the technical roadmap and align it with business goals. * Partner with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders. * Develop engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring, and performance management. * Hire and scale high-performing teams and leadership talent. * Strengthen engineering culture through quality, ownership, and data-driven decisions. * Drive organizational excellence across backend, platform, data, and fintech-related engineering domains. * Oversee the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure systems that support high-volume, business-critical, and transaction-intensive workloads. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * Experience managing large engineering teams (>25 people) * Experience hiring and managing engineering managers * Experience developing future engineering managers from within the company * Experience rapidly growing a team * Experience communicating to C-level * At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, 10+ years of experience in software engineering. * Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility * Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership * Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (React, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#) * Knowledge in scale, microservices and clean architecture. * A focus on velocity and quality, along with the right engineering metrics to guide and improve these. * Excellent people management and communication skills. * Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; **It’s great if you have many of these:** * Proficiency in range of backend programming languages. * Experience in data engineering * Have experience managing in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data * A key player at an Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second * Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers. * Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems
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. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation package is provided)** **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 in order 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 though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether you’re 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. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems. * Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, Influence and coach distributed team of engineers * Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices. * Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working. * Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions. * Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes. * Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same. * Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * 8+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using JVM tech stack (Java, Scala OR Kotlin) * Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved * Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs * Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures * Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding * A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices * Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team * A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence * Excellent written and verbal English communication skills **What We Offer** **Full Relocation and Onboarding Support:** * Visa sponsorship for you and your family * Flights, settling-in allowance, and temporary housing * Dedicated relocation and settling-in advisors * Relocation buddy program and community events **Family & Expat Benefits:** * Partner & children support (school search, legal, etc.) * International health insurance * Flexible home visit support **Agoda Perks:** * Hybrid working (Bangkok HQ) * Professional growth and learning budget * Employee resource groups for every culture and background **Get to know first-hand testimonials of Agodans relocating from around the world to Bangkok:**[**https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/**](https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/) **Agoda’s Engineering Blog:******[**https://medium.com/agoda-engineering**](https://medium.com/agoda-engineering) **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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **Disclaimer** We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.
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. Fintech is one of the fastest growing areas in Agoda and we are rapidly expanding our tech team. We work closely with the finance business team and our Fintech product owners to reduce risk, drive efficiencies and move on new market opportunities in this exciting field. We have a wide range of projects from traditional finance to cutting-edge customer fintech. For example, reconciliation using Big Data technologies, growing and optimizing customer payments options, tax calculations in milli-second r esponse times and a mesh of supplier payment options like virtual credit cards. It’s a hot field and the perfect mix of data engineering and backend engineering. In this role, you will not only develop robust backend systems but also architect and maintain scalable data pipelines and storage solutions that support complex data collection, processing, and analysis. Your dual expertise in backend and data engineering will play a crucial role in optimizing our financial technology solutions and driving informed business decisions through reliable data insights. In This Role, You’ll Get to * Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code – from business requirements, technology selection, coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing, to CI/CD and proper monitoring * Design, develop and maintain platforms and data pipelines across fintech * Boost System Performance: build systems that are stable, scalable, and highly performant to meet the dynamic demands of the financial landscape * Write great code and help others write great code – mentor people in your team and wider * Collaborate with other teams and departments * Exceptional problem-solving skills coupled with a strategic mindset are essential. You possess the ability to adapt to new changes and the foresight to anticipate future needs. Leadership at Agoda isn’t just managing tasks but inspiring innovation and driving vision into reality * Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with diverse teams to drive forward product and technology goals * Shape our future team: Play a pivotal role in recruiting and onboarding exceptional talent What You’ll Need to Succeed * **8+ years** of experience with strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Scala with a proven track record of developing high-performance applications in production settings. Insightful experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, real-time processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark), and advanced knowledge of SQL and data architecture * Thinks in systems: their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles * Uses a metrics driven approach and can make informed decisions using data * You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills * Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies * Excellent verbal and written English communication skills * Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards It’s Great If You Have * Experience working in a modern FinTech or Payments organization * Domain knowledge in any of these areas: financial reconciliation, financial reporting, tax, payout methods like virtual credit cards or customer payments * Hands-on experience working with technologies like Spark for data processing, ETLs for data pipelines and queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) * Core engineering infrastructure tools like GitLab for source control and Continuous Integration, Kubernetes * Experience developing, maintaining and debugging large-scale distributed systems * Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)
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. This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation package is provided) 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 in order 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 though, 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. In this Role, you’ll get to: * Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems. * Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, Influence and coach distributed team of engineers * Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices. * Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working. * Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions. * Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes. * Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same. * Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization. What you’ll Need to Succeed: * 10+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using JVM tech stack (Java, Scala OR Kotlin) * Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved * Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs * Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures * Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding * A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices * Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team * A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence * Excellent written and verbal English communication skills What We Offer Full Relocation and Onboarding Support: * Visa sponsorship for you and your family * Flights, settling-in allowance, and temporary housing * Dedicated relocation and settling-in advisors * Relocation buddy program and community events Family & Expat Benefits: * Partner & children support (school search, legal, etc.) * International health insurance * Flexible home visit support Agoda Perks: * Hybrid working (Bangkok HQ) * Professional growth and learning budget * Employee resource groups for every culture and background Get to know first-hand testimonials of Agodans relocating from around the world to Bangkok:[https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/](https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/) Agoda’s Engineering Blog: [https://medium.com/agoda-engineering](https://medium.com/agoda-engineering) #LI-Hybrid #LI-ND2 #hyderabad #chennai #delhi #pune #noida #mumbai #Coimbatore #Bengaluru #moscow #Stpetersburg #saintpetersburg #seatlle #california #newyork #romania #toronto #sunnyvale #ontario #texas #warsaw #sydney #chicago #madrid #TelAviv #Amsterdam #Atlanta #Dublin #Boston #bangkok #singapore Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **Disclaimer** We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee. ## Apply Now Back End Lead Software Engineer – Accommodation/Flights/Supply/FinTech(Bangkok based – Relocation provided) +1 This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand and requires full-time, on-site work. Are you willing and able to relocate to Bangkok for this role, if offered the position? (Hybrid - 2 days WFH, 3 days in office) LinkedIn What is your current role? What is your current company? In which country/region are you currently based? What is your total number of years of professional software development experience, excluding internships and freelance work? Describe the largest-scale backend or distributed system you personally owned. 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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** Agoda’s FinTech teams build and operate the platforms that power our global financial ecosystem. From payments and reconciliation to tax, compliance, and financial reporting, these systems sit at the core of how we scale our business reliably and responsibly. As Agoda continues to grow across markets, products, and partner ecosystems, tax technology plays a critical role in enabling compliant, scalable, and efficient financial operations. Our teams work across product, engineering, finance, and architecture to design robust solutions that balance control, flexibility, and innovation. In this role, you will help shape the future of Agoda’s tax technology landscape, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and Technology to build resilient, enterprise-grade solutions that support a fast-moving global business. **The Opportunity** We are looking for a Platform Architect to define and drive the technical direction of Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem within FinTech. In this role, you will own the architecture vision and roadmap for scalable, secure, and compliant tax platforms that support Agoda’s global financial operations, high transaction volumes, and evolving regulatory needs. You will work closely with Finance domain experts, product managers, engineering teams, and fellow architects to translate complex tax rules and business requirements into robust technical solutions across Agoda’s internal systems, data flows, tax engines, and selected third-party platforms. As a senior technical leader, you will operate from strategy through implementation detail: guiding architectural decisions, challenging trade-offs, coaching engineering teams, and ensuring our tax platforms are resilient, adaptable, observable, and built for Agoda’s scale. You will help balance compliance and governance with engineering velocity, cost efficiency, and long-term platform quality. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)** **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem, aligning Finance, regulatory, product, and engineering goals. * Own the architecture of mission-critical platforms and capabilities, ensuring they are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable to Agoda’s global scale, with the key starting focus being the Tax platform. * Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms where they create clear business and technical value. * Work hands-on with engineering teams on key technical decisions, system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components. * Lead architectural reviews and provide expert guidance on system design, integration patterns, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness. * Translate complex tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into clear technical models that engineering teams can build, evolve, and operate effectively. * Analyze Agoda’s current Tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks, duplication, inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities, and define practical transition paths toward the future state. * Establish and evolve architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices that improve quality without slowing delivery. * Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across Tax-related systems and adjacent FinTech platforms. * Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads, raising engineering fundamentals across design, code quality, testing, observability, and production ownership. * Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology. * Effectively utilize AI to achieve all the above, including contributions in building the solutions you helped design. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * **10+ years**of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles, with a strong track record of designing and evolving complex production systems. * **3+ years**of hands-on experience delivering tax-related technology projects across direct or indirect tax domains, or closely related finance technology domains, including building or evolving tax platforms. * Strong understanding of Tax technology domains such as VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. * Proven ability to shape technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains. * Strong hands-on engineering background, with deep understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for mission-critical systems, including high-volume transactional platforms at enterprise scale. * Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into clear technical models, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders. * Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority. * Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization. **It’s Great if you have:** * Experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms that support multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models. * Deep experience with tax engines or tax automation platforms such as Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent custom-built solutions. * Experience with ERP systems, financial ledgers, invoicing, billing, reconciliation, or other finance platform integration points. * Familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, or middleware integration technologies * Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures. * Understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls. * Experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams. * Exposure to large-scale global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments. #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi 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#Thiruvananthapuram #Visakhapatnam #Bhopal #JerseyCity #Irving #Denton #Worcester #Arlington #OverlandPark #AuroraDistrict #Baltimore #Tampa #Halethorpe #Dayton #Syracuse #Chonburi #ChiangMai #NakhonRatchasima #KhonKaen #HatYai #Phuket #Surabaya #Tangerang #Birmingham #Casablanca #Rabat #Camp #PetalingJaya #GeorgeTown #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). ## Apply Now Platform Architect (Tax), FinTech (Bangkok based, Relocation provided) +1 This role is based in Bangkok. We would offer relocation support and visa sponsorship. Are you open to relocate to Bangkok? LinkedIn What is your overall years of relevant experience? What are your strongest tech stacks? (Please select top 3 options) Java Scala .Net C# Kotlin Go-Lang Python In which country/region are you currently based? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? How did you hear about this job? Preferred First Name We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.? Email me about other job openings within the Booking Holding’s entities and recruitment-related newsletters
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:** Join a team of talented engineers who are passionate about front-end development. Our team is dedicated to building cutting-edge web applications using Typescript, React, and Redux. **The Opportunity:** As a Front-End Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of skilled engineers and drive the development of robust and scalable front-end solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to project requirements, and deliver high-quality user experiences. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Mentor and guide engineers in utilizing Typescript, React, and Redux to build innovative front-end solutions. * Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams to define project requirements. * Provide technical leadership and foster a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team. * Identify and resolve technical challenges, debug complex issues, and optimize performance. * Stay updated with the latest front-end technologies and industry trends, driving innovation within the team. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * Solid experience in front-end development using Typescript, React, and Redux. * Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to guide and inspire a team. * Excellent collaboration and communication skills, working effectively with cross-functional teams. **It’s Great if you have:** * Exposure to full-stack projects and technologies such as C#, Kotlin, or Scala. * Familiarity with Agile development methodologies. ###### #bangkok #melbourne #telaviv #kiev #moscow #newdelhi #dubai #london #manchester #liverpool #lodz #wroclaw #poznan #rio #sanfranciso #sanjose #losangeles#chicago #newyork #boston #seattle #washdc #sydney #minsk #toronto #vancouver #beijing #shanghai #prague #copenhagen #berlin #munich #nice #paris #IT #ENG #4 **#LI-Hybrid #LI-ST2** #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **Disclaimer** We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee. ## Apply Now Front End/ Full Stack Engineering Manager (Bangkok based, relocation provided) +1 This role is based in Bangkok. We would offer relocation support and visa sponsorship. Are you open to relocate to Bangkok? What is your overall years of relevant experience? How many years of experience you have as a manager? Which platform of engineering do you consider yourself most expert in? What is your strongest area of experience—for example, building client-facing or B2B products, developing platforms, supporting infrastructure, or working with CI/CD and automation? As part of our selection process, we would still require the Engineering Manager to be hands-on in technical coding, would you be comfortable going to live coding interview as part of the process? Which programming language are you most proficient in In which country/region are you currently based? Have you applied to this role in the past 6 months? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? How did you hear about this job? Do you as a candidate have a personal relationship with a current Agoda employee? If yes, please indicate how you know the employee? What is the employee’s name? Do you agree to Agoda’s use of personal data from your application to improve our recruitment experience? We may collaborate and share your data with third-party providers for recruitment purposes and you may ask to remove your data at any time. We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.? Email me about other job openings within the Booking Holding’s entities and recruitment-related newsletters
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:** The Front-End Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills. **The Opportunity:** You will be working as a part of an agile team as a full stack engineer, you will get to experience various parts of Agoda systems that handle millions of users every day, ranging from frontend (both Web and App platforms) to backend including data and infrastructure. _This role is a 6-month contract based in Bangkok, Thailand, and the candidate who succeeds will be assigned to the projects._ **In this role, you’ll get to:** * Be part of an agile product team that do hypothesis driven development. * Visualizing product usage using data in Hadoop. * Use A/B Testing and make product related decisions based on data. * Develop User Interfaces with our frontend technology (React / Redux / Typescript). * Contribute to Agoda mobile apps using advanced architectures and test methodologies. * Develop RESTful / GraphQL APIs (C# / Scala). * Create real-time monitoring for the production system you have built. **What you’ll need to succeed:** * Fresh graduates are welcome to apply. Preferably less than two years of experience * Bachelor’s degree in any stream with coding experience or completing a software engineering-related BootCamp * Strong written and verbal communication skills in English with great problem-solving skills and attention to detail * Understanding of basic data structures and algorithms. * Coding skill in any language e.g. Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, Swift, Kotlin. * Able to understand and communicate ideas clearly with team members. **It’s great if you have:** * Experience in any form of data persistence (RDBMSs, NoSQL). * Some understanding of modern frontend or mobile technology e.g. React, Vue, Angular, Flutter, Native iOS and Android Apps. * Experience with automated CI/CD systems, test driven development, clean software architectures and SOLID principals. * GitHub profile especially contributing to open source projects. #Bangkok #IT #entrylevel #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our [privacy policy](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **Disclaimer** We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee. ## Apply Now Software Developer, Full Stack (Bangkok-based, 6-month Contract) +1 School Select a School Degree Select a Degree Discipline Select a Discipline Start Date End Date Git projects Please let us know your approx. start date (dd/mm/yy) Please let us know your expected monthly salary range (THB). This role does not include visa sponsorship and is only open to people with current work authorization in Thailand. Are you able to legally work in Thailand without visa sponsorship? In which country/region are you currently based? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? Do you allow us to provide you TEXT/SMS updates of your interview process? We may engage with a service provider to do so. How did you hear about this job? To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.? We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. Email me about other job openings within the Booking Holding’s entities and recruitment-related newsletters
Agoda is hiring a Backend Engineer Manager to lead one or more engineering teams within its Back End Engineering department in Bangkok, with relocation support and visa sponsorship provided. The role combines hands-on technical work—writing and reviewing code, coaching engineers, and shaping system architecture—with people leadership, including developing engineers and hiring A-players. Systems are built using Scala, Go, Kafka, and Aerospike, supporting inventory, pricing, payments, and booking flows with dozens of releases per day. The role requires strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Scala, or C#, experience designing complex scalable distributed systems, prior management of engineering teams with 5+ direct reports, and a background in agile, CI/CD-driven environments. Candidates should be comfortable making data-driven decisions, setting KPIs, and owning systems operationally.
Agoda is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to join its Backend Engineering team in Bangkok, which builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems powering a global travel platform across inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms. The role owns the design and reliability of a critical service or domain end-to-end, combining hands-on coding, system design, and technical ownership, and is accountable for outcomes within the service. The position requires 8–12 years of backend engineering experience with strong distributed systems expertise and proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go. The engineer is expected to make independent architectural decisions, mentor team members, partner with product and business stakeholders, and drive production reliability improvements.