Job description
Senior Engineering Manager (Bangkok based, relocation provided)
Company Overview
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.
Job Summary
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.
Key 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.
Requirements / 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 with 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.
- Experience managing in a data-driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data.
- 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.
Location
Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation provided)
Employment Type
Full Time
Equal Opportunity Statement
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’s 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.
