Description
As a Front-End Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead a team of talented engineers building scalable, high-performance web applications that power user experiences at global scale.
You will work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and cross-functional engineering teams to develop user-facing applications and platforms at global scale.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers building scalable, reliable, and user-friendly web applications and product experiences.
- Drive the development of front-end and full-stack solutions across core product areas.
- Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive and impactful customer or internal user experiences.
- Shape architecture across areas such as state management, SSR, micro-frontends, and API integration.
- Ensure new features are performant, maintainable, observable, and production-ready.
- Guide the team in designing interfaces and workflows that surface recommendations, automation, or intelligent product enhancements in a usable and reliable way.
- Improve application quality through engineering best practices including code reviews, testing, experimentation, and continuous delivery.
- Support integration with backend services through REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, and other service interfaces.
- Drive technical decisions around performance, reliability, monitoring, and maintainability in production.
- Mentor engineers and grow team capability in both modern web engineering and evolving product development practices.
Requirements:
- Strong experience leading teams building large-scale web applications with React, Angular, or Vue.
- Hands-on expertise in JavaScript / TypeScript and front-end development.
- Knowledge of web performance optimization, scalability, and frontend best practices.
- Experience integrating frontend applications with backend services through REST, GraphQL, or WebSockets.
- Strong technical and people leadership, with proven mentoring and coaching ability.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.
- Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment for web applications.
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to full-stack development and backend technologies such as C#, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
- Experience with mobile web, cross-platform frameworks, or cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of analytics, A/B testing, and SEO for large-scale web products.
- Experience building customer-facing products in high-traffic or global-scale environments.