
Agoda · Bangkok (Central World Office)
About Agoda At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for tra...
About Agoda
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 Engineering department oversees all Agoda’s ML and software related requirements. Our goal is to enable and increase Agoda’s
business through creative approaches and the implementation of powerful resources such as operational and analytical databases, ML
driven solutions, queue systems and data monitoring tools. 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 engineering team plays at Agoda is critical as business users,
product managers, 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 ML engineering squad, but also
the reward. We work across structured and non-structured data at scale. For example, our current ML models process millions of
images every day to try and enhance the experience that our users get from our app.
Why Agoda Engineering Team (ML role)?
Our engineering teams are at the intersection of business analytics, ml engineering, data warehousing and software engineering.
Our job involves dealing with distributed systems, stream processing, ml modeling and computation at tens of PB Scale. We focus on
software engineering related to data replication, storage, centralized computation, and Data API’s. By providing our users with ML
products/tools, shared frameworks, and ML services, we enable our company to validate strategic decisions, make smarter choices,
and react to the fast-changing world. We are a small but passionate team with people from different nationalities working together
on a single goal.
processes.
Build, administer and scale ML processing pipelines.
standards of testing and code quality.
analysis tasks.
production at a scale.
6+ years of experience in software engineering with a minimum of 4+ years in ML
A strong engineering driven mindset will be required to succeed in this role.
Benefits
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PLEASE REVIEW OUR HIRING PROCESS GUIDELINES BEFORE YOUR INTERVIEW — CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW INTERVIEWING AT AGODA WORKS.
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.
About Agoda 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 it’s 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 #sanjose #losangeles #tirana #sydney #melbourne #perth #vienna #minsk #brussels #saopaolo #sofia #vancouver #shanghai #beijing #shenzhen #zagreb #cyprus #copenhagen #helsinki #paris #berlin #athens #hongkong #budapest #jakarta #dublin #telaviv #milan #rome #luxembourg #kualalumpur #amsterdam #oslo #jerusalem #manila #moscow #belgrade #bratislava #barcelona #madrid #stockholm #zurich #taipei #tainan #istanbul #london #marrakech #wroclaw #rio #IT #4 #5 #LI-ST2 #LI-Hybrid #osaka #tokyo PLEASE REVIEW OUR HIRING PROCESS GUIDELINES BEFORE YOUR INTERVIEW — CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW INTERVIEWING AT AGODA WORKS. DISCOVER MORE ABOUT WORKING AT AGODA * Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com * Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/ * LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda * YouTube 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. 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.
About Agoda 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 it’s 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: As a Senior Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead multiple teams or a large engineering organization, driving technical direction, organizational scale, and business impact. Unlike the Engineering Manager role, this position focuses more on leading managers, shaping strategy, and driving cross-team execution. This role also offers the opportunity to lead teams working on fintech-related platforms and transaction-heavy systems, including areas connected to payments, financial operations, and other business-critical services where scalability, resilience, security, and reliability are essential. IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL GET TO: * Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization. * Manage Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders. * Drive strategic, cross-team initiatives and major engineering programs. * Set the technical roadmap and align it with business goals. * Partner with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders. * Develop engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring, and performance management. * Hire and scale high-performing teams and leadership talent. * Strengthen engineering culture through quality, ownership, and data-driven decisions. * Drive organizational excellence across backend, platform, data, and fintech-related engineering domains. * Oversee the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure systems that support high-volume, business-critical, and transaction-intensive workloads. 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 #sanjose #losangeles #tirana #sydney #melbourne #perth #vienna #minsk #brussels #saopaolo #sofia #vancouver #shanghai #beijing #shenzhen #zagreb #cyprus #copenhagen #helsinki #paris #berlin #athens #hongkong #budapest #jakarta #dublin #telaviv #milan #rome #luxembourg #kualalumpur #amsterdam #oslo #jerusalem #manila #moscow #belgrade #bratislava #barcelona #madrid #stockholm #zurich #taipei #tainan #istanbul #london #marrakech #wroclaw #rio #IT #4 #5 #LI-ST2 #LI-Hybrid #osaka #tokyo PLEASE REVIEW OUR HIRING PROCESS GUIDELINES BEFORE YOUR INTERVIEW — CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW INTERVIEWING AT AGODA WORKS. DISCOVER MORE ABOUT WORKING AT AGODA * Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com * Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/ * LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda * YouTube 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. 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.
Company Introduction We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being leading and reliable force in South Korean commerce. We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day. Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world. Role Overview - 制定广告ML中长期路线图(1-3年),涵盖 Recall、Ads Relevance、Ranking、Auction、Auto Bidding 等核心领域,驱动技术方向与业务目标的深度对齐,指导团队完成业务指标。 - 主导LLM/生成式推荐(Generative Recommendation)技术在广告系统中的研究与落地,探索以生成式模型替代传统"召回→粗排→精排→重排"多阶段级联架构的可行性路径。包括但不限于:Generative Retrieval(如 DSI、TIGER、GENRE)、Generative Re-ranking、以及基于 Sequence-to-Sequence 的用户行为建模等。 - 有 RLHF(Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) 或 RLAIF 在推荐/广告模型对齐中的经验,能够将业务目标(Revenue、Relevance、UX)作为奖励信号优化生成策略。 - 作为广告 ML 领域的技术权威,与广告业务、产品、数据工程、基础架构等多个部门的领导层深度协作,识别高价值技术机会,推动战略级项目落地。 - 主导跨团队的复杂技术项目(如全链路模型升级、在线/离线一体化建设),协调多团队资源,确保项目按时高质量交付。 - 指导和培养 Staff MLE 及高级工程师,通过技术评审、架构讨论、1:1 辅导等方式提升团队技术能力。 - 主导技术招聘标准制定和面试流程,建设高水平 ML 技术团队。 Basic Qualifications * - 计算机科学、统计学、数学等相关专业本科及以上学历(硕士/博士优先),10年以上机器学习相关工作经验,其中 6年广告行业经验。 - 熟练掌握 TensorFlow、PyTorch 等深度学习框架,具备扎实的算法基础和系统设计能力。 - 深入理解 Recall(召回)、Relevance(相关性)、Ranking(排序)、Auction(拍卖)、Bidding(出价)等广告核心算法原理,有主导过核心模块端到端优化的经验,具备架构级设计能力。 - 精通 Two-Tower、Multi-Task Learning (MTL)、MMOE、Deep Interest Network (DIN)、SIM 等推荐/广告经典模型架构,并有改进或提出新架构的经验。 - 具备强化学习(RL)在广告出价与预算分配中的深度实践经验,有 Offline RL、Contextual Bandit 或 Model-based RL 的实际落地案例。 - 有大规模分布式 ML 系统设计和优化经验(数据规模 TB+,模型参数量亿级+)。 Recruitment Process and Others Recruitment Process * Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer * The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances. * Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage. Details to Consider * This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled. * Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process. * Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws. Privacy Notice * Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below: https://www.coupang.jobs/privacy-policy/