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

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

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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 4.7M 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.

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 – one of the job’s fundamental tasks; most development managers write and review code, providing expert-level coaching and guidance to their engineers.
• Have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Stay in touch with industry directions and have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
• Do full stack engineering: solid experience in all parts of the technology stack including infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, and data.
• Developing people – invest in and develop engineers, inspiring those around them to reach their potential and integrating new A-players into the team.

What you\\\’ll Need to Succeed

• Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in 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.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.

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.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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