Engineering Manager, Back End - Generative Ai (Bangkok based, relocation provided)
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About the Role
Agoda is seeking an Engineering Manager for Back End with a focus on Generative AI, based in Bangkok with relocation provided. The role involves leading AI-focused initiatives, hands-on coding, and developing engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
- Drive the end to end execution of AI focused product and platform initiatives, fostering engineering scalability, organizational alignment, and high impact delivery
- Be hands on: write and review code, provide expert level coaching and guidance to engineers
- Do full stack engineering: solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others
- Develop people: inspire and develop team members to achieve their potential
Requirements
- Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
- Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems
- Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
- Proficient in lower level engineering (Garbage collection, context switching, threading)
- DevOps culture – Agility, Leanness, Automation, CI/CD
- Good understanding of application security
- Must have worked in a successful agile development team
- Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
- Able to operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
- Practices data driven decision making
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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.
Get to Know our Team
- At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds the scalable, fault tolerant systems and APIs that power our global travel platform across pricing, inventory, customer data, bookings, payments, and more.
- Our engineers work on complex distributed systems using technologies such as Scala, Go, Kafka, and Aerospike — while also exploring how Generative AI can accelerate engineering productivity.
The Opportunity
- The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on – technically excellent, with solid engineering principles – and exhibits strong leadership and people development skills.
In this Role, you'll get to
- Drive the end to end execution of AI focused product and platform initiatives, fostering engineering scalability, organizational alignment, and high impact delivery.
- Be hands on its one of the job’s fundamental task, and most of our development managers are writing and reviewing code, giving expert level coaching and guidance to their engineers.
- Do full stack engineering: you should have solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others.
- Developing people Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset.
What you'll Need to Succeed
- Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
- Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems
- Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
- Proficient 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
- Must have worked in a successful agile development team
- Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
- Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
- Practices data driven decision making
It's Great if you have
- Proficiency in more than one programming language
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