agoda
Engineering Manager, Back End - Generative Ai (Bangkok based, relocation provided)
At a Glance
- Location
- Bangkok (Central World Office)
- Work Regime
- hybrid
- Department
- IT Engineering
- Posted
- 2026-07-08T00:57:51-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
Requirements
Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems
Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
DevOps culture – Agility.
Good understanding of application security
Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
Responsibilities
The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company.
We are looking for world class development managers to lead one or more of our engineering teams.
Team
At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that power our global travel platform across pricing, inventory, customer data, bookings, payments, and more. We operate high-scale, mission-critical services with frequent releases, using modern engineering practices in CI/CD, automated testing, resilience, and observability.
Our engineers work on complex distributed systems using technologies such as Scala, Go, Kafka, and Aerospike — while also exploring how
Generative AI
can accelerate engineering productivity, improve developer workflows, and unlock new product innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team solving large-scale engineering challenges while helping shape how AI is applied to the future of travel technology.