About the role Our Ascend vision is to create life opportunities with innovative digital services. Operating in Southeast Asia, we are able to help one of the world’s largest populations of underbanked, the people from some of the poorest provinces who are disregarded by traditional banks. So many lives are waiting for our help. In 2018, we served over 30 million customers in 6 countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines), and processed over 4.5 billion USD. This makes us by far the largest fintech company in SE Asia and growing quickly. As a member of our talented Engineering team, you will help to bring this vision to reality by leveraging the most modern cloud-native technologies. At Ascend, you will be part of a team who are directly responsible for improving the lives of millions Job Description * Work in an agile team to build/develop features and technologies across various aspects of the Java stack, primarily focused on Spring Boot and Spring Cloud/NetflixOSS. * CI/CD deployments on a Kubernetes-based platform, both on-premises and on multi-cloud infrastructure. (AWS and GCP) * Possess an understanding of cloud-native architectures and be familiar with implementations involving service discovery, circuit breakers, client-side load balancing, and other architectural patterns related to elastic infrastructure. * Participate in, and help create a company culture that attracts, retains, and coaches other engineers. The primary deliverable of a senior engineer is more senior engineers. * Conduct design and code reviews. * Provide specific technical expertise to help drive innovation. * Identify emerging technologies to create leading-edge banking products * Partnering with architects and platform engineers to build strategies for execution, drive and facilitate key decisions, and influence others, and lead change where appropriate. Qualifications * A positive, can-do attitude, who naturally expresses a high degree of empathy to others * Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. * Relevant work experience. Or 3+ years for senior position. * Experience in building complex applications from scratch and decomposing monolithic applications into micro-services. * Experience with a broad mix of technologies, including a strong subset of: 1. Minimum of core Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud 2. Kubernetes (or Docker/ Mesos and equivalent) 3. MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB) 4. RabbitMQ, Kafka 5. AWS & GCP 6. API Gateway 7. Linux 8. CI/CD (Jenkins, Git) 9. React.JS (Optional) * Experience with distributed architectures, SOA, microservices, and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS). * Experience with Agile and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies. * Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems. * Experience in Automation testing/ or Unit testing is a plus. Location: True Digital Park, Bangkok

You will lead the development and maintenance of B2B backend services, focusing on high-quality system architecture and performance. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product Owners, Data Engineers, and DevOps to deliver first-in-market products. The role requires a hands-on approach to technical design, implementation, and documentation, ensuring solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements within committed timelines. The team operates in a truly agile environment, prioritizing continuous improvement and collective success over bureaucracy. You will have access to a tailored training and coaching program designed to support your technical growth and leadership aspirations. The company values exceptional talent and fosters a culture of learning from mistakes while celebrating team achievements.

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 Data department oversees all of Agoda’s data-related requirements. Our ultimate goal is to enable and increase the use of data in the company through creative approaches and the implementation of powerful resources such as operational and analytical databases, queue systems, BI tools, and data science technology. We hire the brightest minds from around the world to take on this challenge and equip them with the knowledge and tools that contribute to their personal growth and success while supporting our company’s culture of diversity and experimentation. The role the Data team plays at Agoda is critical as business users, product managers, engineers, and many others rely on us to empower their decision making. We are equally dedicated to our customers by improving their search experience with faster results and protecting them from any fraudulent activities. Data is interesting only when you have enough of it, and we have plenty. This is what drives up the challenge as part of the Data department, but also the reward. **The Opportunity:** The DevOps Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on – technically excellent, with solid engineering principles – and exhibits strong leadership and people development skills. DevOps Engineering team is tasked with creating automation into the Software Development Lifecycle concerning all Agoda’s R&D. The team is responsible for maintaining all central Dev-related tooling chain and develop internal tools/Web Portals in order to increase development efficiency and security. The impact of this engineering team affects all development in Agoda. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Be hands on – it’s one of the job’s fundamental tasks, and most of our development managers are writing and reviewing code, giving expert level coaching and guidance to their DevOps engineers. * Maintain CI/CD best practices and automating security testing at the speed of DevOps at a very large scale (~1M pipelines a month) * Maintain all central Dev-related systems for source control, CI, Service Discovery, and more. * Bridging the gap between Development and Operations * Full-stack development for internal portals and tooling * 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:** * Hands-on experience with the whole SDLC: Requirement, Design, Code, Test, Deploy * Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports * Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership * Practices data driven decision making * Experience managing an Agile scrum team * Great coding skills in a modern programming language (preferably Python/Go) * Knowledge of Development ecosystem tooling: Git/CI/Docker/Kubernetes **It’s Great if you have:** * Experience with Configuration Management tools (preferably Ansible) * Experience coding a Full Stack application (preferably with React.js and Go) * Experience working with Container orchestration (preferably Kubernetes) * Experience with Hashicorp tools (Consul / Vault) * Experience with both SQL/NoSQL databses (PostgreSQL, Elastic, MSSQL) #### 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). ## Apply Now Engineering Manager – Devops (Bangkok based, relocation provided) +1 In which country/region are you currently based? How did you hear about this job? Do you as a candidate have a personal relationship with a current Agoda employee? 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