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.
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Agoda is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to join its IT Engineering team in Bangkok, Thailand, with relocation provided. The role owns the design, scalability, reliability, and performance of a critical backend service or domain end-to-end, combining hands-on coding with system design and technical leadership. Responsibilities include leading complex feature development, making independent architectural trade-offs, mentoring engineers, partnering with product and business stakeholders, and driving production issue resolution. The position requires 8–12 years of backend engineering experience, deep expertise in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go, and strong skills in distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and performance/scalability. Candidates should demonstrate ownership beyond assigned tasks, comfort with ambiguity, and a track record of mentoring engineers with measurable outcomes.
Agoda is hiring a Senior/Staff MLOps Engineer to join its ML and AI Platform team in Bangkok, with relocation provided. The role focuses on designing, developing, and operating on-premises MLOps infrastructure built on self-managed Kubernetes and Kubeflow, supporting machine learning model delivery across the organization. Responsibilities include building scalable data pipelines, model training and deployment systems, monitoring tools, and collaborating with data scientists and software engineers. The role also involves mentoring junior team members, troubleshooting user issues, and staying current with MLOps trends. Candidates need 5+ years of relevant experience, strong programming skills, and hands-on Kubernetes expertise.
Agoda's Platform team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Back-End Engineering department in Bangkok, Thailand, with relocation provided. The role focuses on building scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host core business logic across inventory, pricing, payments, and booking systems. The position is part of a fast-track 1-Day Interview Program scheduled for 29th October 2026, with a decision communicated within 24-48 hours. Responsibilities include owning the full product lifecycle, designing and maintaining platforms and data pipelines, boosting system performance, mentoring team members, and collaborating cross-functionally. Candidates need 8+ years of experience with performance-critical applications using Scala, Java, or Kotlin, strong RDBMS knowledge, and experience directing company-wide projects and setting technical vision.
Agoda is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Back-End Engineering team in Bangkok, Thailand, with relocation provided. The role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining scalable platforms and data pipelines that serve millions of users daily, while owning the full product lifecycle from requirements through CI/CD and monitoring. The engineer will mentor team members, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve system performance and reliability. Candidates need 8+ years of experience building performance-critical production applications using Scala, Java, Kotlin, or similar modern languages, plus strong RDBMS knowledge. The position involves directing significant company-wide projects, setting technical vision, and implementing advanced CI/CD and testing strategies. Knowledge of NoSQL, queueing systems, and the Play framework is a plus.
The Backend Engineering team builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems powering a global travel platform. The Staff Backend Engineer will own the design and reliability of a critical service or domain end-to-end, from architecture through production. Responsibilities include designing scalable distributed systems, leading complex features, driving system design and best practices, and owning scalability and performance. The role requires proactive identification of gaps, making independent architectural decisions, collaborating with adjacent teams, and mentoring engineers.
Agoda's Platform team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to build mission-critical systems serving millions of users. The role involves designing and maintaining platforms and data pipelines, boosting system performance, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Candidates will own the full product lifecycle, from business requirements to CI/CD and monitoring. The position requires 8+ years of experience with performance-critical applications in Scala, Java, or Kotlin, strong RDBMS knowledge, and the ability to direct significant company-wide projects.
Agoda's Platform team seeks developers for mission-critical systems serving millions of users. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining platforms and data pipelines. Responsibilities include thinking and owning the full product lifecycle, boosting system performance, writing high-quality code, mentoring others, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. The position requires exceptional problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset to adapt to changes and anticipate future needs.
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** 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. **The Opportunity** 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)**