Back End Staff Software Engineer (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)
About the role
Agoda bridges the world through travel, connecting people to millions of hotels, holiday properties, flights and experiences worldwide. Part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), Agoda employs over 7,000 people from 90 countries across global offices. The Back‑End Engineering team builds scalable, fault‑tolerant systems and APIs that power inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments and more, using modern languages such as Kotlin and Scala, data technologies Kafka, Spark, MLflow, Kubeflow, VastStorage, StarRocks and agile practices.
The Opportunity: You will work on mission‑critical systems that serve millions of users daily, contributing to innovative projects with cutting‑edge technologies and making a significant impact on Agoda’s business and the travel industry.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain mission‑critical systems serving millions of users daily.
- Deliver innovative projects using cutting‑edge technologies.
- Drive impact on Agoda’s business and the travel industry.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience developing performance‑critical applications in a production environment using Scala, Java, Kotlin or other relevant modern programming languages.
- Strong RDBMS knowledge (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL or comparable).
- Ability to direct significant company‑wide projects and set technical vision.
- Good command of the English language.
- Deep involvement in architectural decisions, establishing standards and direction for the team.
- Implement advanced CI/CD pipelines and robust testing strategies to ensure seamless integration, deployment and high code quality.
- Passion for software development and continuous improvement of knowledge and skills.
Skills
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
- Experience with queueing systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ or MSMQ.
- Familiarity with the Play framework.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance provided.
- Position based in Bangkok, Thailand.