Senior Lead Software Engineer (Tax Solution), FinTech (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)
Agoda4 hours ago
Bangkok, ThailandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem.
- Own the architecture of scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable tax platforms supporting global financial operations.
- Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms.
- Work hands-on with engineering teams on system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components.
- Lead architectural reviews and guide system design, integration, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness.
- Translate tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into technical models and executable engineering plans.
- Assess the current tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks and modernization opportunities, and define transition paths.
- Establish architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices.
- Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across tax and adjacent FinTech systems.
- Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads without relying on direct reporting authority.
- Communicate technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology.
- Use AI effectively, including contributing to the solutions being designed.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles designing and evolving complex production systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience delivering tax-related or closely related finance technology projects, including building or evolving tax platforms.
- Strong understanding of VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability.
- Experience shaping technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains.
- Strong hands-on engineering knowledge of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for enterprise-scale transactional platforms.
- Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into technical models, architecture decisions, and engineering plans.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders.
- Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams.
- Track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization.
- Preferred experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms across multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models.
- Preferred experience with Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent tax solutions; ERP systems; financial ledgers; invoicing; billing; reconciliation; and finance platform integrations.
- Preferred familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, middleware integration technologies, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures.
- Preferred understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls.
- Preferred experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams.
- Preferred exposure to global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments.
Benefits
- The position is based in Bangkok, Thailand, with relocation support provided.
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About Agoda
Agoda is a global online travel platform for booking hotels, homes, flights, and activities, serving travelers and accommodation partners worldwide. Its web and mobile marketplace matches demand and supply and monetizes through commissions and related partner services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Singapore, Agoda operates as a subsidiary of Booking Holdings, with extensive operations across Asia-Pacific markets.