Engineering Manager, Back End

Engineering Manager, Back End (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

Agoda Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Overview

About Agoda Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose - Bridging the World Through Travel. We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness. We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

Get to Know our Team: In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover 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 use state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques and ensure self-healing capabilities. We work with languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile practices. You’ll have the opportunity to make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

The Opportunity

The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate will be hands-on—technically excellent with solid engineering principles—and possess strong leadership and people development skills. We are seeking world-class development managers to lead one or more engineering teams.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Be hands on — writing and reviewing code, and providing expert-level coaching and guidance to engineers.
• Have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Stay connected with industry directions and have strong opinions on system architecture, engineering, and maintenance.
• Do full stack engineering with solid experience across the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others.
• Developing people — recruit and develop high-quality engineers, inspire the team, and integrate A-players into the business.

What you'll Need to Succeed

• Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
• Strong experience in systems architecture – especially for complex, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
• Proficient in lower-level engineering (Garbage collection, context switching, threading)
• DevOps culture – Agility, Leanness, Automation, CI/CD
• Good understanding of application security
• Passionate about technology and the Internet
• Must have worked in a successful agile development team
• Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
• Able to operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
• Practices data-driven decision making

It's Great if you have

• Proficiency in more than one programming language

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.

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.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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