Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager (Bangkok based, relocation provided) 1 week ago Be among the first 25 applicants 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 4.7 million 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. Team In Agoda's Engineering department, we build the scalable and fault‐tolerant systems. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: website, mobile apps, affiliate APIs, 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 in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that 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, JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, data technologies like Kafka, Aerospike and Big Data, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, 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. Opportunity The Senior Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles in Technology. The right candidate has both deep technical knowledge and exhibits extremely strong leadership and people‐development skills. They should also have experience leading large engineering teams and managing managers. Responsibilities Manage large engineering teams Directly manage engineering managers and star engineers Provide technical input into new business ideas Work with senior leadership up to C‐level Work and drive initiatives outside of your core team Build and guide the technical roadmap for your area Take ownership of major projects that are strategic to Agoda It's important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it's important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained Developing people – Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A‐players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important Qualifications 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 Preferred Qualifications 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 Equal Opportunity Employer At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. 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