6 days ago
Bangkok, ThailandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own scalable distributed systems and microservices within a service or domain.
- Lead complex features and technical initiatives from design through delivery.
- Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices.
- Own service scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Make architectural and technical trade-off decisions and take accountability for outcomes.
- Identify risks and improvement opportunities, then drive them to resolution.
- Collaborate with adjacent teams and translate business needs into technical priorities.
- Remain hands-on with coding and system design while mentoring engineers.
- Handle production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement follow-through improvements.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong experience building and owning distributed systems at scale within a service or domain.
- Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, system design, SQL and NoSQL databases, performance, scalability, and concurrency.
- Strong coding and problem-solving ability.
- Demonstrated ownership beyond assigned tasks and comfort making decisions under ambiguity.
- Experience communicating technical trade-offs to engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated impact mentoring or growing engineers.
- Large-scale consumer or marketplace platform experience is a plus.
- Exposure to Kafka or RabbitMQ, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, or Aerospike, cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
Benefits
- Bangkok, Thailand-based position with relocation 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.