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 more than 3.6 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities 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.

Get to Know our Team:

In Agoda\xe2\x80\x99s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: 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 must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and 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 Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it\xe2\x80\x99s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you\xe2\x80\x99ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

The Opportunity:

Agoda is looking for developers to work on mission critical systems that deal with the designing and development of APIs that serve millions of user search requests a day.

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
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software
• Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
• Get involved with software engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution
• Constantly look for ways to improve our products, code-base and development practices
• Write great code and help others write great code
• Drive Technical decisions in the organization.

What You\xe2\x80\x99ll Need to Succeed

• 7+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala, Java or C#.
• Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved
• Data platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Strong coding ability
• You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

It\xe2\x80\x99s Great If You Have

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed products
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment
• Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library

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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\xe2\x80\x99s 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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