Backend Lead Software Engineer L5 - Bangkok Relocation Provided

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.

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation package is provided)

Get to Know our Team

In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems.
• Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, Influence and coach distributed team of engineers
• Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices.
• Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working.
• Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same.
• Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization.

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• 8+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using JVM tech stack (Java, Scal