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.

Responsibilities

• Be hands on—this is 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.
• Have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. 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.
• Develop full-stack engineering skills—solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client-side, back-end, performance, data, and others.
• Develop people—inspire those around them so they can achieve their potential. Bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrate them into the business.

Requirements

• Extremely proficient in at least one 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

• Proficiency in more than one programming language (great if you have)

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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Additional Information

Agoda is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.

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