Senior Engineering Manager (Bangkok based, relocation provided) in London

About Agoda

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.

Get to Know our Team

In Agoda’s Engineering department, we build scalable and fault‑tolerant systems. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: website, mobile apps, affiliate APIs, inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, finance and more. These mission‑critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state‑of‑the‑art CI/CD, experimentation and advanced testing techniques to ensure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self‑healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state‑of‑the‑art languages like React, Redux state management, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, data technologies like Kafka, Aerospike and Big Data, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful.

The Opportunity

The Senior Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles in Technology. The right candidate has both deep technical knowledge and exhibits extremely strong leadership and people development skills. They should also have experience leading large engineering teams and managing managers.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Manage large engineering teams
• Directly manage engineering managers and star engineers
• Provide technical input into new business ideas
• Work with senior leadership up to C‑level
• Work and drive initiatives outside of your core team
• Build and guide the technical roadmap for your area
• Take ownership of major projects that are strategic to Agoda

It’s important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained. Developing people – Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A‑players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important.

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• Experience managing large engineering teams (>25 people)
• Experience hiring and managing engineering managers
• Experience developing future engineering managers from within the company
• Experience rapidly growing a team
• Experience communicating to C‑level
• At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
• Able to operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
• Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (React, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#)
• Knowledge in scale, microservices and clean architecture
• A focus on velocity and quality, along with the right engineering metrics to guide and improve these
• Excellent people management and communication skills
• Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field

It’s great if you have many of these:

• Proficiency in a range of backend programming languages
• Experience in data engineering
• Experience managing in a data-driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• A key player at an Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
• Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers
• Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritise attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, colour, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.