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

About the role

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.

Opportunity

• Be hands-on—its one of the job’s fundamental tasks, and most of our development managers are writing and reviewing code, giving expert-level coaching and guidance to their engineers.
• Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
• Developing people—despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important.

Requirements

• 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 with autonomy: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
• Practices data-driven decision-making

Qualifications

• Must have worked in a successful agile development team
• Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
• Able to operate with autonomy: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
• Practices data-driven decision-making

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time position.