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, backend, 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 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

No specific benefits mentioned in the job posting.

Schedule

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Pay

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Disclaimers

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.