This role reimagines traditional IT operations by positioning you as the team's core builder and creator of efficiency tools. You will leverage deep technical expertise, scripting mastery, and modern AI/GenAI applications to design and enhance Modern Device Management while developing automation across our entire SaaS and Enterprise Software ecosystem. By joining our team, you will step into a role where you can solve complex system integration challenges, drive internal innovation, and elevate both security and operational efficiency at scale. You will lead the administration of Unified Endpoint Management (UEM/MDM) platforms to ensure all laptops and mobile devices are strictly hardened against threats. You will continuously build, update, monitor, and troubleshoot device configurations while defining and enforcing robust security baselines to achieve 100% compliance. Additionally, you will design and maintain automation scripts and internal bots to eliminate manual IT and cross-team workflows, ensuring seamless integration of core work platforms with internal tools for real-time data sync.

The AI Engineer plays a critical role in designing, building, and deploying AI and Generative AI solutions to drive business value. This position focuses on enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency by developing enterprise-grade AI applications, agents, and automation workflows. The role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement solutions across various business domains, including customer care and network operations. Additionally, the engineer will contribute to the development of foundational AI platforms and services, ensuring robust MLOps and LLMOps practices are in place for scalable production environments. Key responsibilities include supporting the full lifecycle of AI/ML and GenAI solutions, from initial design and development to deployment and monitoring. The engineer will work on building and enhancing AI platforms, including APIs, orchestration components, and foundational capabilities such as RAG and vector databases. They will also participate in data pipeline development, model deployment, and governance activities to ensure security and compliance. The role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI initiatives, including proof-of-concepts and experimentation with internal teams and technology partners.

The Packaging Development Engineer identifies opportunities for new packaging products and services by analyzing customer needs, market trends, and business strategy. This role involves developing innovative packaging concepts and structural designs that align with customer and industry requirements while gathering and analyzing customer data to support development initiatives. The position coordinates the New Product Development (NPD) process to ensure projects advance through each phase and Product Step Meetings on schedule. The engineer collaborates closely with Customer Science, R&D, Sales, and cross-functional teams to convert market insights into commercial packaging solutions and monitors commercialization performance before transitioning products to the portfolio. The role requires staying current on global packaging trends and technologies to spot future opportunities and supporting product presentations and technical discussions with stakeholders and customers as needed.

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.

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:** App platform team tackles Infrastructure pain points head on. The end goal is to create a robust ecosystem that the wider mobile org can reliably build within and on top of, and members of the App platform team dedicate their time and attention entirely towards this end. Examples of this include CI/CD improvements, App architecture and core-libraries improvements, dev experience improvements, Customer experience improvements **In this role, you’ll get to:** * Design, develop, and maintain Android applications that integrate with the platform’s core services and APIs * Partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile engineers to define requirements, design features, and deliver cohesive user experiences * Drive engineering best practices for testing, quality assurance, and release readiness, including automated testing strategies * Build and evolve reusable platform components(SDKs, internal libraries, shared UI/infra patterns) to accelerate multiple product teams * Contribute to or lead initiatives involving WebView-based architecture, including performance, security, debugging, and deep integration with native modules * Improve developer velocity via CI/CD pipelines for mobile (build, test automation, release flows, quality gates) * Raise reliability standards by improving observability: performance monitoring, crash analysis, app/service metrics, logging, and alerting * Identify and implement opportunities for optimization across the technology stack, focusing on cost, efficiency, velocity, and developer happiness * Enable cross-team collaboration on large initiatives, improving overall code quality, architecture, and platform consistency * Provide thoughtful feedback and mentorship, fostering an inclusive engineering culture and strong engineering fundamentals * Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to stakeholders across levels, including non-technical partners **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * 12+ years of software development experience building large-scale applications; strong craft in either native app engineering (Android) or web engineering, with openness to working across both when needed * 4+ years in a Tech Lead (or equivalent) role, owning execution and technical direction end-to-end * Proven experience owning production systems with significant impact on design, development, deployment, monitoring, and long-term evolution * Strong engineering leadership: mentoring senior engineers, influencing across teams, and driving alignment through clear communication * Advanced proficiency in modern app development frameworks and architectural choices (scalable patterns, modularization, maintainability) * Strong understanding of app development challenges and solutions: performance, stability, backwards compatibility, and security * Expert-level knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices; ability to drive end-to-end test strategy(e.g., UI/E2E automation) * Practical experience improving engineering throughput through CI/CD(automated builds, test pipelines, release workflows) * Ability to use data and telemetry to guide improvements; experience with observability for app/service performance is a strong advantage * Strong problem-solving: can do deep research, make decisions on complex projects, and balance independence with collaboration * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field **It’s great if you have:** * Experience working across both native mobile and web applications(one strong core skill is enough; openness to the other is key) * Experience in a platform team building reusable solutions used by multiple teams/products * Hands-on experience with WebView internals(rendering/performance/debugging, JS bridges, security, architecture decisions) * Proficiency in writing and maintaining end-to-end tests(e.g., Espresso/UI Automator/Detox/Appium or equivalents depending on stack) * Experience building or maintaining CI/CD for native apps(build automation, test automation, release management, feature flags) * Experience with observability(crash analytics, performance monitoring, tracing/metrics/logging, SLO-driven improvements) * Experience in scaled product/internet companies with high traffic, large user bases, and high transaction volume * Experience with cross-platform technologies (React Native, WebViews, Flutter, etc.) and making pragmatic trade-off decisions **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. **Our Opportunity** As our Staff Full Stack Engineer, you will design and build AI-driven chat experiences that power Agoda’s AI Assistant, trip planning and discovery, customer support flows, and proactive recommendations. You’ll work closely with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to define, build, and scale the next generation of AI solutions that make travel planning more intuitive, personalized, and effortless for millions of customers worldwide. We’re looking for a visionary Full Stack architect with a strong hands-on mentality — integrating innovative AI capabilities and rapidly validating ideas through experimentation. You will create measurable impact on traveler experience and business outcomes, while upholding Agoda’s standards for privacy, reliability, and the responsible use of AI. **Why Agoda & Why Bangkok?** * Global Engineering, Global Impact: Join a high-energy, multilingual and multicultural engineering team in Bangkok driving innovation across regions. * Vibrant Bangkok HQ: Work in a tech-centric city with a thriving expat community, beautiful culture, and world-famous cuisine. * English-First: Work and collaborate in English—no Thai required! * World-class relocation and family support are offered. **The Impact You’ll Make** * Lead full-stack architecture and system design for features used by millions of customers * Own complex end-to-end systems — from React-based frontend to backend microservices — and mentor high-performing teams * Design and evolve Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layers that aggregate downstream services into optimized, UI-friendly contracts * Guide technical decisions across several squads, driving engineering excellence * Collaborate with Product and Design to deliver cohesive, user-centered solutions at scale **What We’re Looking For** * 8+ years of experience in software engineering (web, backend, or full stack) * **Frontend:** Hands-on proficiency with React and its ecosystem — Next.js (SSR/SSG), TypeScript, state management (Redux, Zustand, or similar), component libraries, and build tooling (Webpack/Vite) * **Backend:** Expertise in Java, Kotlin, or .NET; comfort designing microservices and REST/gRPC APIs * **BFF / middleware:** Experience building and owning Node.js/TypeScript BFF layers that sit between frontend and core services, including API aggregation, response shaping, and auth handling * Solid understanding of frontend performance fundamentals: Core Web Vitals, code splitting, lazy loading, and rendering strategies (CSR vs SSR vs ISR) * Familiarity with testing approaches across the stack — unit, integration, and E2E (Jest, Cypress, or Playwright) * Proven experience leading end-to-end architecture on high-traffic platforms * Track record of technical mentorship, cross-team collaboration, and solving ambiguous problems **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) ***** This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided) ***** **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. 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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 you’re 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:** The Senior Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles in Technology. The right candidate has both deep technical knowledge and exhibits extremely strong leadership and people development skills. They should also have experience leading large engineering teams and managing managers. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Manage large engineering teams * Directly manage engineering managers and star engineers. * Provide technical input into new business ideas * Work with senior leadership up to C-level * Work and drive initiatives outside of your core team * Build and guide the technical roadmap for your area * Take ownership of major projects that are strategic to Agoda. * It’s important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained. * Developing people – Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important. **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. **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