Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack - Bangkok

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.

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.

Get to Know our Team

The Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work.

The Opportunity

Principal Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in our technology organization, collaborating closely with individual contributors and senior leadership. Our Principal engineers are heavily involved in the hiring and mentoring process and the go-to experts who design and implement new systems and components. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about taking on greater responsibilities and driving significant architectural changes at Agoda. It’s expected that our Principal Software Engineers will lead Agoda forward technically by adopting new technologies and setting higher standards.

What you’ll Need to Succeed

• 12+ years of experience building large-scale web applications
• Expertise in client-side technologies & frameworks (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and modern server-side technologies (C#, .NET, Kotlin, Java)
• Bachelor’s degree with a preference for Computer Science degree; a master’s degree is preferred. Alternatively, a minimum of 10 years of experience in the relevant field is acceptable
• Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
• You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack
• Great communication and coordination skills
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• You have a good command of the English language

It’s Great if you have

• Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc.)
• Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus
• Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
• Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization
• Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD
• Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
• Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
• Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
• Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data