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

Join Agoda's Back End Engineering team to build scalable, fault-tolerant systems that power our core business logic. This role focuses on leading the development of AI-powered data querying solutions, enabling users to interact with data through natural language. You will also architect and develop scalable data quality tools and frameworks to ensure reliable and trustworthy data. As a senior technical leader, you will operate across AI, data infrastructure, and reliability domains, driving high-impact initiatives and serving as a key technical authority across the organization. This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand, with relocation support provided. You will collaborate with TPMs and stakeholders to define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for AI-driven querying, query engines, and data quality tools. Additionally, you will mentor engineers and raise standards across data quality & governance tools, query engines, and the broader data platform.

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. **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. 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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