Agoda

BackEnd Staff Software Development Engineer (Level 4) | Bangkok based, Relocation provided

Bangkok, Thailand · Work style not stated

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EmployerAgoda
LocationBangkok, Thailand
Work styleWork style not stated
Employer posted4 months ago

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.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

About our Team
At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power a global travel platform serving millions of users daily. We own mission-critical domains across inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms. Our systems run with high availability, low latency, and zero-downtime expectations, powered by modern technologies such as Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and Aerospike, along with strong foundations in CI/CD, automation, and observability. We ship fast—often dozens of releases a day—and design systems that are resilient, self-healing, and built to scale globally.

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The Opportunity
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll own the design and reliability of a critical service or domain end-to-end — from architecture through production. Beyond writing code, you'll be expected to identify problems before they're assigned to you, make independent calls on ambiguous technical trade-offs within your domain, and raise the technical bar for your immediate team. You'll combine hands-on coding, system design, and technical ownership — accountable for outcomes within your service, and a trusted technical voice when your work touches adjacent teams.

What You will Do

Design, build, and own scalable distributed systems and microservices within your domain
Lead development of complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end, within your service or team
Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices for your team
Own scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of the services you're responsible for
Optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems
Proactively identify gaps, risks, or improvement opportunities in your domain, and drive them to resolution without waiting to be asked
Make independent architectural and technical trade-off decisions within your service's scope, and be accountable for the outcomes
Collaborate with adjacent teams when your service's boundaries or dependencies require it, and raise engineering standards within your own team
Partner with your product and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical priorities, and technical constraints into business context
Stay hands-on with coding and system design
Mentor engineers on your team with a structured approach, supporting their growth
Handle production issues within your domain, drive RCA, and lead follow-through improvements

What We’re Looking For

Technical

8–12 years of backend engineering experience
Strong experience building and owning distributed systems at scale, within a service or domain
Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs & system design, SQL/NoSQL databases, and performance, scalability, and concurrency
Strong coding and problem-solving ability

Beyond the technical bar:

A track record of taking ownership beyond your assigned tasks — initiatives you drove within your domain because you saw the need, not because you were told
Comfort making decisions under ambiguity and owning the consequences, technical and business, within your area of ownership
Experience communicating trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, adjusting your framing accordingly
Demonstrated impact mentoring or growing engineers on your team, with concrete outcomes, not just informal help

Nice to Have

Experience building large-scale consumer or marketplace platforms
Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike)
Familiarity with cloud (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)

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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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