Engineering Manager, Back End - Generative Ai (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

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 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: As an Engineering Manager, Backend/Data at Agoda, you will lead a team of talented engineers in building and scaling robust backend and data platforms that power critical products and services at Agoda. You will drive the design and development of distributed systems, data pipelines, and high-throughput, low-latency services, while ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence. This role also offers the opportunity to work on fintech-related platforms and transaction-heavy systems, including areas connected to payments, financial operations, and other business-critical flows where accuracy, resilience, and performance are essential. IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL GET TO: * Lead a high-performing engineering team while staying hands-on with coding, code reviews, and technical guidance. * Coach engineers through technical problem-solving, design discussions, and day-to-day development. * Architect scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems in a high-traffic, data-intensive environment. * Drive engineering across backend services, infrastructure, performance, data, client-facing systems, and fintech-related platform capabilities. * Own production systems, including operational health, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security. * Shape engineering best practices across software design, architecture, testing, system operations, and secure engineering. * Develop people through mentoring, feedback, and career growth support. * Hire and scale strong engineering talent. * Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful business, product, and platform outcomes. * Use data-driven decision making to improve team effectiveness and delivery. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED: * Demonstrate strong hands-on coding ability in at least one language such as Java, Scala, or C#. * Bring strong experience in systems architecture and scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. * Show experience as a system owner with operational responsibility for production services. * Apply knowledge of lower-level engineering concepts such as garbage collection, threading, and context switching. * Operate effectively in a DevOps culture with exposure to automation, CI/CD, and Agile / Scrum. * Maintain good understanding of application security and secure engineering practices. * Lead engineering teams with 5+ direct reports and a strong track record of building and developing talent. * Communicate clearly, manage stakeholders effectively, and operate with strong ownership and autonomy. * Practice data-driven decision making in delivery and engineering management. * Bring the ability to operate effectively in environments involving transaction-heavy, reliability-sensitive, or fintech-related systems. IT’S GREAT IF YOU HAVE: * Demonstrate proficiency in more than one programming language. * Bring experience with large-scale distributed systems in high-growth or high-traffic environments. * Show exposure to travel tech, e-commerce, marketplace, or fintech platforms. * Understand data engineering or machine learning team environments. * Bring prior experience hiring and scaling teams rapidly. * Have experience working on payments, financial systems,or other transaction-focused platforms.   #sanjose #losangeles #sydney #melbourne #perth #brussels #saopaolo #vancouver #shanghai #beijing #shenzhen #copenhagen #helsinki #paris #hongkong #budapest #jakarta #dublin #telaviv #milan #rome #kualalumpur #amsterdam #oslo #jerusalem #manila #moscow #barcelona #madrid #stockholm #zurich #taipei #istanbul #london #wroclaw #warsaw #rio #chennai #pune #toronto #austin #sydney #chichago #noida #delhi #seattle #hyderabad #gurgaon #newyork #bangalore #boston #bengaluru #berlin #mumbai #stockholm #barcelona #IT #4 #5 #LI-ST2 #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.

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.