Engineering Manager, Back End - Generative Ai (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

• Drive the end-to-end execution of AI-focused product and platform initiatives, fostering engineering scalability, organizational alignment, and high-impact delivery.
• 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.
• Develop full-stack engineering skills: you should have solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client-side, back-end, performance, data, and others.
• Develop 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 integrate 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

• Proficiency in more than one programming language

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• No explicit benefits mentioned

Pay

• No explicit pay information provided

Schedule

• No explicit schedule information provided

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. 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.