Senior Engineering Manager - Fintech (Bangkok based, relocation provided)
About the role
The Senior Engineering Manager at Agoda will lead multiple teams or a large engineering organization, driving technical direction, organizational scale, and business impact. This role focuses more on leading managers, shaping strategy, and driving cross-team execution. The opportunity includes leading teams working on fintech-related platforms and transaction-heavy systems, including areas connected to payments, financial operations, and other business-critical services where scalability, resilience, security, and reliability are essential.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization.
- Manage Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders.
- Drive strategic, cross-team initiatives and major engineering programs.
- Set the technical roadmap and align it with business goals.
- Partner with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders.
- Develop engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
- Hire and scale high-performing teams and leadership talent.
- Strengthen engineering culture through quality, ownership, and data-driven decisions.
- Drive organizational excellence across backend, platform, data, and fintech-related engineering domains.
- Oversee the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure systems that support high-volume, business-critical, and transaction-intensive workloads.
Requirements
- Experience managing large engineering teams (>25 people).
- Experience hiring and managing engineering managers.
- Experience developing future engineering managers from within the company.
- Experience rapidly growing a team.
- Experience communicating to C-level.
- At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility.
- Able to operate with autonomy: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership.
- Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (React, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#).
- Knowledge in scale, microservices and clean architecture.
- A focus on velocity and quality, along with the right engineering metrics to guide and improve these.
Qualifications
- Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field;
- Proficiency in range of backend programming languages.
- Experience in data engineering.
- Have experience managing in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data.
- A key player at an Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second.
- Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers.
- Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems
Skills
- Excellent people management and communication skills.
Benefits
Agoda offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. Relocation assistance is provided for candidates who need to relocate to Bangkok.
Pay
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Details will be shared during the interview process.
Schedule
The role is full-time and based in Bangkok. Remote work is not available.
Contact
To apply, please visit our careers page at Agoda Careers. For more information about working at Agoda, please visit our company pages on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Agoda is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Disclaimer
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.