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

Agoda
Bangkok
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Communication","Ownership","Team management"]

Lead and mentor backend engineering teams at Agoda, while staying technically hands-on. You’ll drive architecture, scale systems and APIs across inventory, pricing, payments and more, coach engineers, own delivery KPIs, and maintain a DevOps culture with CI/CD and secure, high-performance services built in Scala or Go.

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Agoda
Agoda
1 year ago

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

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Job Summary

Lead and mentor backend engineering teams at Agoda, while staying technically hands-on. You’ll drive architecture, scale systems and APIs across inventory, pricing, payments and more, coach engineers, own delivery KPIs, and maintain a DevOps culture with CI/CD and secure, high-performance services built in Scala or Go.
Location: Bangkok
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Be hands on - writing and reviewing code, giving expert level coaching and guidance to engineers
  • •Maintain strong opinions about system architecture and ensure scalable, fault-tolerant design
  • •Do full stack engineering across infrastructure, client side, back end, performance and data
  • •Develop people - inspire and integrate A-players from outside and grow the team
  • •Operate autonomously with decision-making, set KPIs and own delivery outcomes

Key Requirements

  • •Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
  • •Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and 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
Experience:TravelSaaSE-commerce
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationOwnershipTeam management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ScalaGoKafkaAerospikeCI/CD

Company Brief

Agoda
Agoda operates a global online travel booking platform offering hotels, vacation rentals, flights, and other travel services. It provides price comparison, deals, and booking management for leisure and business travelers worldwide.
Industry: TravelTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2005
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