Senior engineering manager (bangkok based, relocation provided)

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings, with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. We connect people to destinations and experiences worldwide, with great deals across millions of hotels, holidays, flights, and experiences.

The Opportunity

The Senior Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles in Technology. The right candidate has deep technical knowledge and 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
• Love engineering and have a passion for building things elegantly and at scale
• Develop people, inspire and integrate high‑performance talent

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• Experience managing large engineering teams (more than 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 in software engineering
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
• Ability to operate autonomously, make decisions, set KPIs, and take 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 relevant engineering metrics
• Excellent people‑management and communication skills
• Minimum B.S. in Computer Science or a quantitative field

It’s great if you have many of these:

• Proficiency in a range of backend programming languages
• Experience in data engineering
• Experience managing in a data‑driven company with Big Data
• Experience in global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers
• Experience in Fintech or financial systems

Equal Opportunity Employer

Agoda is 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. We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies, and you can ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details, read our privacy policy.

Disclaimer

We do not accept unsolicited third‑party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.