Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End; Bangkok

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 our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same a and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

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 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 must employ state‑of‑the‑art CI/CD and testing techniques to make sure everything works without any downtime.

We also ensure that our systems are self‑healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state‑of‑the‑art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

Agoda Platform team is looking for developers to work on mission‑critical systems that serve millions of users daily. You will have the chance to work on innovative projects, using cutting‑edge technologies, and make a significant impact on our business and the travel industry.

• Architect and develop highly scalable, mission‑critical back‑end systems
• Own a large portion of Agoda’s system, from the original vision down to the bytecode level
• Enable impactful collaboration and cross‑team projects on big initiatives, improving the quality of our services, code, and architecture
• Provide thoughtful feedback, nurture an inclusive engineering environment, and champion engineering fundamentals, bringing out the best from your fellow engineers
• Identify and implement opportunities for optimization across the technology stack, focusing on cost, efficiency, velocity, and developer happiness
• Exhibit technical leadership throughout the broader organization, conveying complex technical trade‑offs to non‑technical stakeholders such as business owners and C‑suite executives

• Overall 10+ years’ experience in software engineering roles
• Proven hands‑on experience owning production services with significant impact on design, development, deployment, monitoring, and evolution
• Curiosity, staying abreast of technological improvements and open‑source advancement
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#
• Ability to perform deep research and make decisions on complex projects, and to work both independently and as part of a team
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical details to stakeholders at all levels
• Expertise in Back End with an understanding of challenges and trade‑offs across the entire engineering universe, from Front End and Mobile to Data and Analytics
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

• Master’s or Ph.D. in a technical field
• Experience with Kubernetes for effective container orchestration and scaling
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and practices relevant to machine learning
• Experience in programming with Rust, C, or another low‑level language

This position is based in Bangkok,…