# Software Development Engineer - BackEnd (Staff - Level 4) | Gurugram, IND

**Company**: Agoda
**Location**: Gurugram
**Experience**: staff
**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, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll own the design and reliability of a critical service or domain end-to-end , from architecture through production. You'll combine hands-on coding, system design, and technical ownership , accountable for outcomes within your service, and a trusted technical voice when your work touches adjacent teams.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and own scalable distributed systems and microservices within your domain

- Lead development of complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end, within your service or team

- Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices for your team

- Own scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of the services you're responsible for

- Optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems

- Proactively identify gaps, risks, or improvement opportunities in your domain, and drive them to resolution without waiting to be asked

- Make independent architectural and technical trade-off decisions within your service's scope, and be accountable for the outcomes

- Collaborate with adjacent teams when your service's boundaries or dependencies require it, and raise engineering standards within your own team

- Partner with your product and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical priorities, and technical constraints into business context

- Stay hands-on with coding and system design

- Mentor engineers on your team with a structured approach, supporting their growth

- Handle production issues within your domain, drive RCA, and lead follow-through improvements

## Requirements

- 8–12 years of backend engineering experience

- Strong experience building and owning distributed systems at scale, within a service or domain

- Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go

- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs & system design, SQL/NoSQL databases, and performance, scalability, and concurrency

- Strong coding and problem-solving ability

## Nice to Have

- Experience building large-scale consumer or marketplace platforms

- Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

- Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike)

- Familiarity with cloud (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Scala
- Go
- microservices architecture
- REST APIs
- system design
- SQL
- NoSQL databases

### Nice to have
- event-driven systems
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Cassandra
- MongoDB
- Aerospike
- cloud
- AWS
- GCP
- CI/CD pipelines
- Agile
- Scrum

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