Principal Software Engineer, Back End (AI-powered Data Querying) (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

Principal Software Engineer, Back End (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

Agoda

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 Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: 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 must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and 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 Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, 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 reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.    The Opportunity We are seeking a Principal Engineer to drive innovation across our AI-powered data experience and platform infrastructure. This role combines leading the development of AI-powered data querying — enabling users to ask business questions in natural language and receive actionable insights — while shaping the evolution of our data quality tools, and analytical engines such as StarRocks. As a senior technical leader, you will operate across AI, data infrastructure, and reliability domains, driving high-impact initiatives and serving as a key technical authority across the organization.   This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)   In this Role, you'll get to: * Lead the development of AI-powered data querying solutions, enabling users to ask business questions in natural language and receive actionable insights. * Architect and develop scalable data quality tools and frameworks to ensure reliable and trustworthy data. * Act as a hands-on technical leader, tackling complex challenges across AI query engines, data quality systems, and analytical engines. * Collaborate with TPMs and stakeholders to define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for AI-driven querying, query engines, and data quality tools. * Mentor engineers and raise standards across data quality & governance tools, query engines, and the broader data platform.   What you'll Need to Succeed: * 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields * Strong hands-on experience with: * SQL and large-scale data systems * Modern analytical databases / data warehouses (e.g., StarRocks, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse) * Backend development (e.g., Python, Java, Scala or similar) * Experience building or working with: * AI/LLM-based applications (e.g., text-to-SQL, conversational interfaces, cursor, copilots) * Data platforms or analytical infrastructure at scale * Strong understanding of data modeling, query execution, and performance optimization * Proven ability to lead cross-team, high-impact technical initiatives * Ability to navigate between deep hands-on work and strategic technical leadership * Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders   It's Great if you have: * Experience with text-to-SQL systems or AI-driven data interfaces * Experience implementing or scaling analytical engines such as StarRocks * Background in data observability, quality, or governance frameworks * Experience with tools like dbt, Airflow, Spark, or similar   #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi #NewYorkCity #Nigeria #London #Hyderabad #Pune #Mumbai #Colombia #Paris #Jakarta #Chennai #SanFrancisco #WashingtonDC #Toronto #Pakistan #LosAngeles #Dallas #Chicago #Kenya #Boston #Shanghai #Egypt #BuenosAires #Manila #Netherlands #Singapore #RiodeJaneiro #Beijing #Atlanta #Sydney #Madrid #Vietnam #SaudiArabia #Peru #Melbourne #Ireland #Russia #Bangladesh #MexicoCity #Philadelphia #Chile #SeattleArea #Noida #Kolkata #Guangdong #UnitedArabEmirates #TelAvivDistrict #Houston #KualaLumpur #BeloHorizonte #SouthKorea #Bangkok #Istanbul #Austin #Curitiba #Warsaw #Campinas #Barcelona #Ukraine #CostaRica #Berlin #Romania #Denver #Johannesburg #Minneapolis #Manchester #Miami #Phoenix #Detroit #Coimbatore #Milan #PortoAlegre #Vancouver #Montreal #Charlotte #SanDiego #Ghana #SaltLakeCity #Raleigh #HongKong #Munich #Prague #Ecuador #TampaBay #Tokyo #Serbia #Lithuania #Taipei #Cracow #Zhejiang #CapeTown #Brasilia #Columbus #Ahmedabad #Indore #Kochi #Gurgaon #Chandigarh #Lucknow #Bhubaneswar #Thiruvananthapuram #Visakhapatnam #Bhopal #JerseyCity #Irving #Denton #Worcester #Arlington #OverlandPark #AuroraDistrict #Baltimore #Tampa #Halethorpe #Dayton #Syracuse #Chonburi #ChiangMai #NakhonRatchasima #KhonKaen #HatYai #Phuket #Surabaya #Tangerang #Birmingham #Casablanca #Rabat #Camp #PetalingJaya #GeorgeTown       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.

Lead Software Engineer - Front End (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

Agoda

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: Agoda’s front-end teams focus on various product aspects including accommodations, flights, and payments. We build localized, optimized user experiences globally across mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites, fostering innovation and constant improvement through data-driven practices.  The Opportunity: As a Lead Software Engineer (Front End) at Agoda, you will drive the technological evolution of our front-end systems. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing user interfaces that enhance the user experience for millions of travelers worldwide. This position requires a deep understanding of front-end development principles, a passion for crafting exceptional user experiences, and expertise in various front-end technologies.    In this role, you’ll get to:  * Lead the design and development of highly distributed, large-scale front-end applications.  * Drive collaboration with product managers, product designers, and engineers to design, implement, and improve scalable applications and services.  * Serve as a front-end expert on large-scale projects, providing technical guidance and mentorship.  * Hands-on development of proof of concepts and evaluation of new technologies.  * Implement technical, strategic decisions in cross-functional teams.  * Leading in building a culture that optimizes applications using best practices for performance.  * Maintaining coding standards and staying up-to-date to industry and technology development.  * Part of strategic discussion relating to Agoda's future technology directions and development practices.  * Contribute to the professional development of the team.    What you’ll Need to Succeed:  * 12+ years of software development experience in building large scale web application, with a minimum of 3 years in a Tech Lead role.  * Proven experience designing, building, improving, and operating high-performance, scalable front-end systems.  * Extensive experience with client-side technologies & modern frameworks (e.g., Javascript, Typescript, React).  * Eager to work in multiple programming languages and frameworks, constantly striving to raise technical excellence.  * Experience mentoring and growing Senior and Staff engineers through thorough and convincing communication.  * Provides technical direction within and across groups by leading projects and building systems with company-wide impact.  * Strong understanding of the business and how their systems impact the bottom line; able to redirect the team based on business priorities.  * Constantly read and learn, moving Agoda forward technically, influencing other teams, and proactively improving others.    It’s great if you have:  * Knowledge of physical architecture at scale, building resilience and highly available solutions.  * Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization.  * Proficiency in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD.  * Knowledge of back-end technologies and how they integrate with front-end systems.      This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)     #sanfrancisco #newyork #seattle #bangalore #london #toronto #sydney #washingtonDC #boston #losangeles #austin #dallas #hyderabad #denver #melbourne #chicago #atlanta #vancouver #berlin #saopaulo #IT #ENG #4 #LI-NP1  #IT #4 #5 #LI-Hybrid       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.

Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

Agoda

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 Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.   The Opportunity: Lead engineer is the key role in our technology organization working together with individual contributors and senior leadership. Our Lead engineers are heavily involved in the hiring and mentoring process and are the go-to people who design and implement new systems and components. We are looking for people who are passionate to take on more responsibility and driving major architectural changes in Agoda. It’s expected from you in this role as Lead engineer to push Agoda forward technically by adopting new technologies and setting higher standards.   In this Role, you’ll get to: * Maintain ownership and responsibility of mission critical systems. * Be hands on – build high volume platforms using cutting-edge technologies like React and GraphQL * Mentor and coach other software engineers * Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices * Design and lead crucial technical projects and initiatives cross teams and departments * Stay on the leading edge of technical know-how, industry trends and drive technical innovations What you’ll Need to Succeed: * 12 years+ of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, etc., with a minimum of 3 year experiences as a Tech Lead  * B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred * Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development * Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too * Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript * You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack. * Great communication and coordination skills * Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills * You have a good command of the English language. It’s Great if you have: * Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions. * Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc). * Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus * Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus * Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization, * Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD. * Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services * Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second * Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data * Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems * Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data   This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)   #bangalore #sanfrancisco #newyork #seattle #hyderabad #Pune #London #Delhi #Chennai #Toronto #Dallas #losangeles #washingtonDC #Austin #Chicago #Atlanta #SaoPaulo #mumbai #vancouver #IT #ENG #4 #LI-TN1       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.