This role involves leading a technical team to enhance the scalability, quality, and efficiency of data and machine learning processes. The engineer will design and build tools, libraries, pipelines, and platforms to support Data Science and Business teams in launching experiments in production. The position requires end-to-end ownership of systems to enable rapid production deployment. The team focuses on processing big data to help validate strategic decisions and react to a fast-changing environment.
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.
In Agoda’s Back-End Engineering department, we build 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. We employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques to ensure everything works without downtime. Our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. We use modern languages like Kotlin and Scala, Data technologies Kafka, Spark, MLflow, Kubeflow, VastStorage, StarRocks and agile development practices. Most importantly, we hire great people from around the world and empower them to be successful.
Agoda Platform team is looking for developers to work on mission-critical systems that serve millions of users daily. You will have the chance to work on innovative projects, using cutting-edge technologies, and make a significant impact on our business and the travel industry.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
* **10+ years** of experience developing performance-critical applications in a production environment using **Scala, Java, Kotlin**or relevant modern programming languages.
* Strong RDBMS knowledge (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, or other).
* Ability to direct significant company-wide projects and sets technical vision.
* Good command of the English language.
* Deeply involved in making architectural decisions, setting the standard and direction for the team.
* Implement advanced CI/CD pipelines and robust testing strategies to ensure seamless integration, deployment, and high code quality.
* Passion for software development and continuous improvement of your knowledge and skills.
It’s Great if You Have
* Knowledge in NoSQL, Queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), and Play framework.
This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)
You will join Agoda's Display & App Marketing engineering team to build and maintain large-scale systems that power performance marketing across global advertising channels. Your work will involve managing high-volume hotel feeds, processing advertisement images, and integrating with major advertising platforms like Google Ads and Meta. You will collaborate closely with Marketing, Product, and Data teams to deliver reliable, efficient, and scalable engineering solutions that drive real business impact. This role offers the opportunity to shape systems and working methods end-to-end, from design and implementation to operational excellence at a global scale.
You will design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that support performance marketing use cases, including hotel feeds, ad platform integrations, and experiment data. You will actively participate in the full development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and production support. You will proactively identify and improve system reliability, scalability, data quality, and operational efficiency while writing clear, maintainable code and engaging in code reviews and technical discussions.
