Backend Lead Software Engineer (L5) — Bangkok Relocation Provided

Staff/Lead 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. This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation package is provided) 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.  In this Role, you'll get to:   * Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems. * Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, Influence and coach distributed team of engineers * Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices. * Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working. * Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions. * Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes. * Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same. * Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization. What you'll Need to Succeed:   * 10+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using JVM tech stack (Java, Scala OR Kotlin) * Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved * Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs * Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures * Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding * A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices * Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team * A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence * Excellent written and verbal English communication skills What We Offer Full Relocation and Onboarding Support: * Visa sponsorship for you and your family * Flights, settling-in allowance, and temporary housing * Dedicated relocation and settling-in advisors * Relocation buddy program and community events Family & Expat Benefits: * Partner & children support (school search, legal, etc.) * International health insurance * Flexible home visit support Agoda Perks: * Hybrid working (Bangkok HQ) * Professional growth and learning budget * Employee resource groups for every culture and background Get to know first-hand testimonials of Agodans relocating from around the world to Bangkok: https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/ Agoda’s Engineering Blog: https://medium.com/agoda-engineering #LI-Hybrid  #LI-ND2  #hyderabad #chennai #delhi #pune #noida #mumbai #Coimbatore #Bengaluru #moscow #Stpetersburg #saintpetersburg #seatlle #california #newyork #romania #toronto #sunnyvale #ontario #texas #warsaw #sydney #chicago #madrid #TelAviv #Amsterdam #Atlanta #Dublin #Boston #bangkok #singapore     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.

Back End Lead Software Engineer - Accommodation/Flights/Supply/FinTech(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. This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation package is provided) 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.  In this Role, you'll get to: * Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems. * Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, Influence and coach distributed team of engineers * Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices. * Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working. * Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions. * Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes. * Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same. * Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization. What you'll Need to Succeed: * 8+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using JVM tech stack (Java, Scala OR Kotlin) * Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved * Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs * Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures * Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding * A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices * Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team * A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence * Excellent written and verbal English communication skills What We Offer Full Relocation and Onboarding Support: * Visa sponsorship for you and your family * Flights, settling-in allowance, and temporary housing * Dedicated relocation and settling-in advisors * Relocation buddy program and community events Family & Expat Benefits: * Partner & children support (school search, legal, etc.) * International health insurance * Flexible home visit support Agoda Perks: * Hybrid working (Bangkok HQ) * Professional growth and learning budget * Employee resource groups for every culture and background Get to know first-hand testimonials of Agodans relocating from around the world to Bangkok: https://careersatagoda.com/agodans-in-bangkok/ Agoda’s Engineering Blog: https://medium.com/agoda-engineering #LI-Hybrid  #LI-ND2  #hyderabad #chennai #delhi #pune #noida #mumbai #Coimbatore #Bengaluru #moscow #Stpetersburg #saintpetersburg #seatlle #california #newyork #romania #toronto #sunnyvale #ontario #texas #warsaw #sydney #chicago #madrid #TelAviv #Amsterdam #Atlanta #Dublin #Boston #bangkok #singapore      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.