Senior Engineering Manager

Location: Bangkok (relocation provided). Agoda Perth, Western Australia, Australia

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose - Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness. We are a skilled, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

Get to Know our Team: In Agoda's Engineering department, we build scalable and fault-tolerant systems for core business areas including website, mobile apps, APIs, inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, finance, and more. We employ CI/CD, experimentation, and advanced testing techniques to support frequent releases with minimal downtime. Our systems are designed to be self-healing and resilient under extreme loads. We use modern languages and data technologies, and we hire great people from around the world to empower their success.

The Opportunity: The Senior Engineering Manager role is one of the most significant and challenging roles in Technology. The right candidate has deep technical knowledge and strong leadership and people-development skills, with experience leading large engineering teams and managing managers.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Manage large engineering teams
• Directly manage engineering managers and senior engineers
• Provide technical input into new business ideas
• Work with senior leadership up to C-level
• 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
• Maintain a love of engineering and passion for building things elegantly and at scale; stay engaged with industry directions and contribute opinions on architecture, engineering, and maintenance
• Develop people by inspiring others, bringing in A-players, and integrating them into the business

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 software engineering
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
• Able to operate 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 of scale, microservices and clean architecture
• A focus on velocity and quality, with appropriate engineering metrics
• Excellent people management and communication skills
• Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or a quantitative field

Nice to have:

• Proficiency across a range of backend programming languages
• Experience in data engineering
• Experience in a data-driven company with Big Data
• Experience at Internet-scale with many users and high transactions
• Experience with global projects and distributed data centers
• Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.