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

Agoda; Oslo; On-site; NOK 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Agoda is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide multiple teams and shape the technical direction of our global platform. You will own strategy, execution, and delivery across backend, data, and fintech-related systems, ensuring reliability and scalable performance.

You will partner with senior leadership to drive organizational growth, coach engineers, and build high-performing teams that ship high-impact features in fast-paced, globally distributed environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, 10+ years in software development.
• Experience hiring and developing engineering managers.
• Strong communication with C-level executives.
• Proven ability to set KPIs and own outcomes.
• Experience with scale, microservices, and clean architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization.
• Manage Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and tech leaders.
• Drive cross-team initiatives and major engineering programs.
• Set the technical roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Partner with Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders.
• Develop engineering leaders through coaching and mentoring.
• Hire and scale high-performing teams and leadership talent.
• Strengthen engineering culture with quality and ownership.
• Oversee scalable, secure, high-volume systems.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

C-level communication

KPI setting

Coaching and mentoring

Hiring engineering managers

Autonomy

Ownership mindset

Data-driven decisions

Problem solving

Software architecture knowledge

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

React

JavaScript

Kotlin

Scala

Java

C#

Microservices

Clean architecture

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 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

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 API, 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 downtime. We also ensure 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, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or innovating on the latest fintech idea or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of our Engineering team.

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. Unlike the Engineering Manager role, this position focuses more on leading managers, shaping strategy, and driving cross‑team execution.

This role also offers the opportunity to lead teams working on fintech‑related platforms and transaction‑heavy systems, including areas connected to payments, financial operations, and other business‑critical services 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, 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 range of backend programming languages.
• Experience in data engineering.
• Have 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.

Discover More About Working At Agoda

• Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda
• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife

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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Disclaimer

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