EM Full Stack And Front End Engineering Manager Ai - BKK

Agoda; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Agoda is seeking an experienced Front-End Engineering Manager in Dubai to lead a talented team building scalable, high-performance web applications at a global scale. You will work with product managers, designers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to deliver user-facing platforms and AI-enabled features.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture for SSR and micro-frontends, and ensure delivery of reliable, observable software.

Qualifications

• Led teams building large-scale web apps with modern frontend tech (React/Angular/Vue).
• Strong hands-on expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend patterns.
• Deep understanding of web performance, scalability, and best practices.
• Experience integrating frontend with backend services via REST, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
• Proven ability to mentor and grow engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building scalable, reliable web applications and product experiences.
• Drive front-end and full-stack solutions, including AI-enabled features.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering for impactful user experiences.
• Shape architecture for state management, SSR, micro-frontends, and API integration.
• Ensure features are performant, observable, and production-ready.
• Mentor engineers and grow team capability in modern web engineering.
• Promote best practices: code reviews, testing, and continuous delivery.
• Oversee integration with backend services via REST/GraphQL/WebSockets.
• Make technical decisions on performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Skills

Frontend leadership

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Web performance

REST API

GraphQL

CI/CD

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Description:

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. 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. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you're ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get to Know our Team:

Join a team of talented engineers who are passionate about front-end development. Our team is dedicated to building cutting-edge web applications using Typescript, React, and Redux.

The Opportunity:

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 that integrate AI capabilities into Agodas products at global scale.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• 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, including selected AI-enabled features and workflows.
• 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, including AI-assisted capabilities where relevant, 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.

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• Bring strong experience leading teams building large-scale web applications with React, Angular, or Vue.
• Demonstrate solid hands-on expertise in JavaScript / TypeScript and front-end development.
• Apply strong knowledge of web performance optimization, scalability, and frontend best practices.
• Show experience integrating frontend applications with backend services through REST, GraphQL, or WebSockets.
• Drive strong technical and people leadership, with proven mentoring and coaching ability.
• Collaborate effectively with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.
• Contribute to architectural decisions across SSR, micro-frontends, and state management.
• Operate with a strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment for web applications.
• Communicate clearly and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

It’s Great if you have:

• Bring exposure to full-stack development and backend technologies such as C#, Kotlin, or Scala.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Show experience with mobile web, cross-platform frameworks, or cloud platforms.
• Apply experience with analytics, A/B testing, and SEO for large-scale web products.
• Demonstrate experience building customer-facing products in high-traffic or global-scale environments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize 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, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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