Engineering Manager, Back End

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

Location: Bangkok, Thailand. Relocation provided.

Overview

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 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 employ CI/CD and testing techniques to ensure uptime and resilience. We use languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. You'll join a global team and have the opportunity to make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

We aim to hire great people from around the world and empower them to be successful.

The Opportunity

The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on—technically excellent, with solid engineering principles—and demonstrates strong leadership and people development skills. We are looking for world-class development managers to lead one or more of our engineering teams.

In this Role, you'll get to

• Be hands on – one of the job's fundamental tasks, with many development managers writing and reviewing code and providing expert-level coaching and guidance to engineers.
• Love engineering and building things elegantly and at scale; keep in touch with industry directions and have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
• Do full stack engineering: experience across infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and related areas.
• Developing people – invest in developing team members, inspire those around them, and integrate A-players from outside into the business.

What you'll need to succeed

• Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, C#).
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly 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.
• Good understanding of application security.
• Passionate about technology and the Internet.
• Must have worked in a successful agile development team.
• Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports.
• Able to operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership.
• Practices data driven decision making.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in more than one programming language.

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.

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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.

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