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

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Pay

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Schedule

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Company Information

Agoda is part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. 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.

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