Senior Engineering Manager - Fintech (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

Agoda; Roma; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Agoda is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager in Rome, Italy to lead multiple engineering teams and drive technical direction in fintech-related platforms. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of software engineering experience and be adept at managing large teams, developing leaders, and executing cross-team initiatives.

The role emphasizes strategic planning, quality assurance, and communication with stakeholders at all levels. This position is pivotal in strengthening Agoda's engineering culture while focusing on scalable and reliable systems.

Competenze

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience managing large teams (>25 people).

Mansioni

• Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization.
• Drive strategic initiatives and engineering programs.
• Set technical roadmap aligned with business goals.

Conoscenze

People management

Software development

Strategic planning

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Proficiency in programming languages

Formazione

B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field

Strumenti

React

JavaScript

Kotlin

Scala

Descrizione del lavoro

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005 when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings, with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries working together in offices around the globe.

We connect people to destinations and experiences with our deals across millions of hotels, holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. Data and technology fuel our culture of curiosity and innovation, and we build scalable, fault‑tolerant systems for the web, mobile apps, affiliate APIs, inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, finance, and more. Our teams use React, Redux, JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, Kafka, Aerospike, Big Data, and agile practices to ship dozens of releases per day while maintaining self‑healing, resilient systems.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead multiple teams or a large engineering organization, driving technical direction, organizational scale, and business impact. This position focuses on leading managers, shaping strategy, and driving cross‑team execution, especially in fintech‑related platforms and transaction‑heavy systems where scalability, resilience, security, and reliability are essential.

In This Role, You’ll Get To

• Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization.
• Manage Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders.
• Drive strategic, cross‑team initiatives and major engineering programs.
• Set the technical roadmap and align it with business goals.
• Partner with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, and C‑level stakeholders.
• Develop engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Hire and scale high‑performing teams and leadership talent.
• Strengthen engineering culture through quality, ownership, and data‑driven decisions.
• Drive organizational excellence across backend, platform, data, and fintech‑related engineering domains.
• Oversee the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure systems that support high‑volume, business‑critical, and transaction‑intensive workloads.

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 and 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 of scale, microservices, and clean architecture.
• A focus on velocity and quality, along with appropriate engineering metrics for guidance and improvement.
• Excellent people management and communication skills.
• Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or a 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 Big Data analysis.
• A key player at an Internet company that handles 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 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.

Disclaimer

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third‑party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.