About Agoda
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.
Today, we are 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.
The Opportunity
Agoda Platform team is looking for developers to work on mission-critical systems that serve millions of users daily. You will have the chance to work on innovative projects, using cutting-edge technologies, and make a significant impact on our business and the travel industry.
Responsibilities
- Architecting and developing highly scalable, mission critical back end systems
- Owning a big chunk of Agoda's system all the way from the north-star & vision down to the bytecode level
- Enabling impactful collaboration and cross-team projects on big projects, making a dent in the quality of our services, code & architecture
- Providing thoughtful feedback, nurture an inclusive engineering environment, and champion engineering fundamentals. Bring out the best from your fellow engineers.
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for optimization across the technology stack, focusing on cost, efficiency, velocity & dev happiness
- Exhibiting technical leadership throughout the broader organization, conveying complex technical trade-offs to non-techies such as business owners & C-suite executives.
Requirements
- Overall experience of 10+ years in software engineering roles
- Proven hands-on experience, Experience with owning production services with significant impact on design, development, deployment, monitoring & evolution
- Curiosity, staying a-breast on technological improvements and open source advancement.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#.
- Can perform deep research & take decisions on complex projects. Can easily toggle between running as a lone wolf and also works great as part of a pack
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical details to stakeholders at all levels.
- On top of being an expert in Back End, has understanding of challenges and trade-offs in the entire engineering universe, from Front End/ Mobile to Data Analytics
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.