Description
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.
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.
The Agoda Platform team is looking for developers to work on mission-critical systems that serve millions of users daily. You will have the chance to work on innovative projects, using cutting-edge technologies, and make a significant impact on our business and the travel industry.
In this Role, you'll get to:
- Architect and develop highly scalable, mission-critical back-end systems
- Own a big chunk of Agoda’s system all the way from the north-star & vision down to the bytecode level
- Enable impactful collaboration and cross-team projects on big projects, making a dent in the quality of our services, code & architecture
- Provide thoughtful feedback, nurture an inclusive engineering environment, and champion engineering fundamentals
- Identify and implement opportunities for optimization across the technology stack, focusing on cost, efficiency, velocity & dev happiness
- Exhibit technical leadership throughout the broader organization, conveying complex technical trade-offs to non-techies such as business owners & C-suite executives.
What you'll Need to Succeed:
- Overall experience of 10+ years in software engineering roles
- Proven hands-on experience, Experience with owning production services with significant impact on design, development, deployment, monitoring & evolution
- Curiosity, staying abreast on technological improvements and open-source advancement
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#
- Can perform deep research & take decisions on complex projects
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical details to stakeholders at all levels
- On top of being an expert in Back End, has understanding of challenges and trade-offs in the entire engineering universe, from Front End/ Mobile to Data & analytics
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
It's Great if you have:
- Master's or Ph.D. in a technical field
- Experience with Kubernetes for effective container orchestration and scaling
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and practices relevant to machine learning
- Experience in programming with Rust, C or other low-level languages