Technology Lead

AirAsia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading budget travel company is looking for a skilled Technology Lead in Kuala Lumpur to drive technical excellence and manage the technology roadmap for key services. This role involves mentoring developers, designing scalable systems, and making architectural decisions. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of backend development experience, especially with Java and cloud technologies. Competitive compensation and benefits included.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Executive perks

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 in a leadership role.
• Proven track record in designing and operating microservices at scale.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight and review service designs.
• Design and implement scalable backend services.
• Own end-to-end delivery from requirements to deployment.

Skills

Deep coding expertise

System design

Strong debugging skills

Mentorship

Java (Spring Boot)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Job Title : Technology Lead (Agent Portal/Lemon)
Location : Kuala Lumpur

About AirAsia MOVE

AirAsia MOVE is a dynamic Asean focused budget travel company that’s redefining the way people experience travel. As part of the Capital A Group (better known as AirAsia), we aim to deliver seamless, customer-centric solutions that combine innovation and operational excellence. By focusing on creating delightful customer journeys, we’re shaping the future of budget travel.

About the Role

AirAsia MOVE is a leading ASEAN-focused budget travel OTA, part of the Capital A Group. We deliver customer-centric travel solutions by combining innovation with operational excellence. Our goal is to create seamless, reliable, and delightful journeys for travelers across the region.

We are seeking a hands-on Technology Lead / Staff Engineer to drive technical excellence and own the technology roadmap for key OTA services. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and operating highly available, scalable systems, mentoring developers, and collaborating closely with engineering leadership. You will help shape team culture, make architectural trade-offs with confidence, and solve complex problems under tight deadlines.

Core Competencies

Deep coding, system design, and architecture expertise.

Cross-functional system knowledge for resilience, availability, and scale.

Confident in architectural and design trade-offs.

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Ability to own and evolve the team’s technical roadmap.

Proficiency in AI-driven tools and processes to boost developer productivity and automation.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Provide architectural oversight and review designs for services, APIs, and data flows.

Make informed trade-offs between performance, reliability, and speed to market.

Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices.

Mentor engineers on system design, code quality, and operational excellence.

2. System Design

Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure backend services (Java, Spring Boot, or similar).

Ensure services meet high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency requirements.

Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvements.

Own end-to-end delivery: from requirements gathering to deployment, monitoring, and support.

Work closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and other stakeholders to align on priorities and delivery timelines.

Translate business requirements into technical solutions and present them to non-technical audiences.

Own the team’s technology roadmap: evaluate new tools, platforms, and architectural patterns.

Foster a culture of experimentation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

8+ years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or senior architect role.

Expert in Java (Spring Boot) or equivalent backend stacks (Nodejs, Python, Go, etc.).

Proven track record of designing and operating microservices at scale (REST APIs, event-driven architectures).

Strong understanding of relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB) databases.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Excellent debugging skills and the ability to diagnose complex distributed system issues.

Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineering teams.

Preferred:

Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, gcp pubsub) and caching strategies.

Familiarity with observability tools esp. with OpenTelemetry

Experience with DevSecOps practices: CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab Pipelines, Travis), code scanning, secret management, SCA, SAST, DAST among others.

Quality Automation for all critical applications.

Understanding of frontend technologies (React, ReactNative, Flutter) to align backend design with UI requirements.

Strong Design knowledge, using S.O.L.I.D principles. Have deep experience in building application on top of one of 3 clouds such as (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Why Join AirAsia MOVE?

Lead the transformation of AirAsia MOVE into a cutting-edge, all in one travel app .

Shape the future of OTA and fintech-driven travel experiences .

Work in a fast-paced, innovative environment .

Competitive compensation, stock options, and executive perks .

If you are a visionary tech leader ready to make a massive impact , we’d love to hear from you!