# Staff Software Engineer - Back End: Fast track 1-Day Program (29th October) (Bangkok Based, Relocation Provided)

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

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/agoda/jobs/8007045?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ffb46f57-598

## 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. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe.

## Get to Know Our Team

In Agoda's Back-End Engineering department, we build 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. We employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques to ensure everything works without downtime. Our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. We use modern languages like Kotlin and Scala, data technologies Kafka, Spark, MLflow, Kubeflow, VastStorage, StarRocks, and agile development practices.

## Fast-Track Opportunity: 1-Day Interview Program

We're currently running a special 1-Day Interview Program for this role , a fast-track hiring format where you complete your entire interview process in a single day and receive an outcome within 24–48 hours.

## The Opportunity

Agoda's 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

- Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code – from business requirements, technology selection, coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing, to CI/CD and proper monitoring

- Design, develop and maintain platforms and data pipelines

- Boost System Performance: build systems that are stable, scalable, and highly performant to meet the dynamic demands

- Write great code and help others write great code – mentor people in your team and wider

- Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with diverse teams to drive forward product and technology goals

## What You'll Need to Succeed

- 8+ years of experience developing performance-critical applications in a production environment using Scala, Java, Kotlin or relevant modern programming languages

- Strong RDBMS knowledge (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, or other)

- Ability to direct significant company-wide projects and sets technical vision

- Good command of the English language

- Deeply involved in making architectural decisions, setting the standard and direction for the team

- Implement advanced CI/CD pipelines and robust testing strategies to ensure seamless integration, deployment, and high code quality

## It's Great if You Have

- Knowledge in NoSQL, Queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), and Play framework

## Benefits

- Relocation provided to Bangkok, Thailand

- Opportunity to work on innovative projects with cutting-edge technologies

- Collaborative and inclusive work environment

- Part of a global team with over 7,000 employees from 90 countries

## Skills

### Required
- Scala
- Java
- Kotlin
- RDBMS
- CI/CD
- agile development

### Nice to have
- NoSQL
- Queueing systems
- Play framework

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