Engineering Manager, Back End (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

Agoda; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 334,800 - 502,200; Full time

Job summary

Agoda is seeking an Engineering Manager in Wrocław, Poland. This hands-on role requires strong leadership, solid engineering principles, and proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Scala, or C#. Ideal candidates will have experience in systems architecture and the ability to guide engineering teams effectively. The role involves developing people, making autonomous decisions, and ensuring high standards in full-stack engineering. Join Agoda to be a part of an innovative travel technology company.

Qualifications

• Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, C#).
• Strong experience in systems architecture for scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility.
• Proficiency in lower-level engineering (e.g., garbage collection, threading).
• DevOps culture experience with agility and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Be hands-on: write and review code, coach engineers.
• Develop people: inspire and nurture talent within the team.
• Stay attuned to industry trends and appropriate architectures.

Skills

Proficient in programming languages (Java, Scala, C#)

Experience in systems architecture

Understanding of application security

Experience in agile development

Leadership in managing engineering teams

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

In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build scalable, fault‑tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission‑critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we employ state‑of‑the‑art CI/CD and testing techniques to ensure uptime. We also make our systems self‑healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. We use Scala, Go, Kafka, Aerospike, and agile practices. Hiring great people from around the world, we empower them. Whether building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

The Opportunity

The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles. The right candidate is both extremely hands‑on – technically excellent, with solid engineering principles – and exhibits strong leadership and people‑development skills. We look for world‑class development managers to lead one or more of our engineering teams.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Be hands‑on – a fundamental task; most development managers write and review code, coaching experts to engineers.
• Have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Stay attuned to industry trends and form strong opinions about architecture, engineering, and maintenance.
• Do full‑stack engineering: solid experience in infrastructure, client side, back‑end, performance, data, and more.
• Develop people: inspire and nurture talent, bringing in A‑players and integrating them into the business.

What you'll Need to Succeed

• Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
• Proficiency in lower‑level engineering (garbage collection, context switching, threading)
• DevOps culture – agility, leanness, automation, CI/CD
• Good understanding of application security
• Passionate about technology and the Internet
• Worked in a successful agile development team
• Run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
• Operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
• Practice data‑driven decision making

It’s Great if you have

• Proficiency in more than one programming language

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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