Overview
Senior Engineering Manager (Bangkok based, relocation provided) – Bangkok, Thailand
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.
The 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.
In this Role, you'll get to
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
Have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale; stay in touch with industry directions and have strong opinions about system architecture, engineering, and maintenance
Developing people – inspire those around you to achieve their potential and bring A-players from outside into the business
What you'll Need to Succeed
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 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, 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
Nice to Have
Proficiency in a range of backend programming languages
Experience in data engineering
Experience in a data-driven company with Big Data
Experience at an Internet company at scale with many users and transactions per second
Experience with global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers
Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems
Other
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