Engineering Manager, Back End (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 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 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 Back End Engineering department, we build 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 employ state‑of‑the‑art CI/CD and testing techniques to ensure everything works without downtime. We also make our systems self‑healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. We use languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly, we hire great people from around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

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 exhibits 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 – write and review code, coach and guide engineers.
• Passion for building elegant, scalable systems; stay current with industry trends and advocate strong architectural decisions.
• Full stack engineering experience across infrastructure, client side, backend, performance, and data.
• Develop people – inspire, recruit A‑players, integrate them 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 – especially for complex, scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems.
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility.
• Proficiency in low‑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.
• Experience in successful agile development teams.
• Prior experience leading engineering teams with 5+ direct reports.
• Ability to operate autonomously – set KPIs, make decisions, take ownership.
• Data‑driven decision making.

It’s Great if you have

• Proficiency in more than one programming language.

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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.

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.