# Senior Lead/Principal Software Engineer, Back End (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

**Company**: Agoda
**Location**: Bangkok
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, and today we are part of Booking Holdings, with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries.

In Agoda's Back End Engineering department, we build scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to drive innovation across our AI-powered data experience and platform infrastructure.

As a senior technical leader, you will operate across AI, data infrastructure, and reliability domains, driving high-impact initiatives and serving as a key technical authority across the organization.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the development of AI-powered data querying solutions, enabling users to ask business questions in natural language and receive actionable insights.

- Architect and develop scalable data quality tools and frameworks to ensure reliable and trustworthy data.

- Act as a hands-on technical leader, tackling complex challenges across AI query engines, data quality systems, and analytical engines.

- Collaborate with TPMs and stakeholders to define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for AI-driven querying, query engines, and data quality tools.

- Mentor engineers and raise standards across data quality & governance tools, query engines, and the broader data platform.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.

- Strong hands-on experience with SQL and large-scale data systems, modern analytical databases/data warehouses, and backend development.

- Experience building or working with AI/LLM-based applications, data platforms or analytical infrastructure at scale.

- Strong understanding of data modeling, query execution, and performance optimization.

- Proven ability to lead cross-team, high-impact technical initiatives.

- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits: No benefits mentioned in the job posting.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- large-scale data systems
- modern analytical databases/data warehouses
- backend development
- AI/LLM-based applications
- data platforms
- analytical infrastructure
- data modeling
- query execution
- performance optimization

### Nice to have
- text-to-SQL systems
- AI-driven data interfaces
- analytical engines
- data observability
- quality
- governance frameworks
- dbt
- Airflow
- Spark

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