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)**
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 response 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** * **10+ years** of experience with strong proficiency in **Java, Kotlin, Scala, or C#**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 package is provided)**
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 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.
You will join Agoda's Display & App Marketing engineering team to build and maintain large-scale systems that power paid marketing campaigns 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 and scalable engineering solutions. This role offers significant exposure to marketing strategy and experimentation, allowing you to shape systems and operational excellence from design through to production support. In this position, you will design and operate backend services and data pipelines specifically for performance marketing use cases. You will take part in the full development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. You will proactively identify and improve system reliability, scalability, and data quality while actively participating in code reviews and technical discussions. Additionally, you will make critical technical trade-offs regarding performance, quality, and cost.