Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

Agoda; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is a leader in the travel industry, where you will leverage your expertise in modern web technologies to build and enhance high-volume websites. You will play a crucial role in a dynamic team, leading the development of innovative features and driving technical excellence. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to agile practices, and collaborate with talented professionals from diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and want to make a significant impact in the travel sector, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Diverse work environment

Career development opportunities

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Wellness programs

Team-building activities

Remote work options

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in web applications with client-side frameworks.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Excellent HTML/CSS skills for creating visually appealing data.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of features and technical projects.
• Build high volume websites using current technologies.
• Collaborate with server and infrastructure teams for best solutions.

Skills

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

Agile methodologies

A/B testing

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

M.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

NoSQL technologies

Job description

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership,enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose - Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

Get to Know our Team:The Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.The Opportunity:We are looking for key contributors to our industry leading front-end websites. You’ll be working on products which have evolved tremendously over the past several years to become the global market leader.You’ll be using the most current technologies and best practices to accomplish our goals. Our typical day involves the creation of new end to end systems, building advanced architectures, creation of new features on our high uptime / frequently published websites and apps, development of fast and reliable automated testing systems and working in a culture that is always looking to improve our quality, tools, and efficiency.In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems
• Be a technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology
• Build high volume websites with current technologies including TS, React, and GraphQL
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software
• Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
• Get involved with full stack engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• 5+ years of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, etc.
• B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred
• Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
• Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
• You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack
• Great communication and coordination skills
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• You have a good command of the English language

It’s Great if you have:

• Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc)
• Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus
• Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
• Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization,
• Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD
• Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
• Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
• Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
• Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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