Engineering Manager, Back End - Generative Ai (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

Get to Know our Team: 

At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that power our global travel platform across pricing, inventory, customer data, bookings, payments, and more. We operate high-scale, mission-critical services with frequent releases, using modern engineering practices in CI/CD, automated testing, resilience, and observability.

Our engineers work on complex distributed systems using technologies such as Scala, Go, Kafka, and Aerospike — while also exploring how Generative AI can accelerate engineering productivity, improve developer workflows, and unlock new product innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team solving large-scale engineering challenges while helping shape how AI is applied to the future of travel technology.

The Opportunity:

The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on – technically excellent, with solid engineering principles – and exhibits strong leadership and people development skills. We are looking for world class development managers to lead one or more of our engineering teams. 

In this Role, you'll get to: 

• Drive the end-to-end execution of AI-focused product and platform initiatives, fostering engineering scalability, organizational alignment, and high-impact delivery.

• Be hands on - its one of the job’s fundamental task, and most of our development managers are writing and reviewing code, giving expert level coaching and guidance to their engineers. 
• It's important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
• Do full stack engineering: you should have solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others. 
• Developing people - Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important. 

What you'll Need to Succeed: 

• Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems 
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility 
• Proficient in lower level engineering (Garbage collection, context switching, threading) 
• DevOps culture – Agility. Leanness. Automation. CI/CD 
• Good understanding of application security 
• Passionate about technology and the Internet 
• Must have worked in a successful agile development team 
• Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
• Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership 
• Practices data driven decision making 

It's Great if you have:

• Proficiency in more than one programming language

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