Lead Software Engineer - Back End Ai (Gurugram based)

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. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

Agoda is hiring experienced Software Developers to work on high-scale, mission-critical systems focused on the design and development of APIs that support millions of user search requests each day. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, building reliable distributed systems, and influencing architecture at scale.

• Lead the development of new features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex backend systems
• Serve as a technical architect, mentor, and engineering leader, helping teams choose the right technologies and design approaches
• Continuously enhance system architecture and contribute to building scalable, maintainable software
• Play a significant role in advancing Agile and Scrum engineering practices
• Collaborate closely with backend, client, server, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best end-to-end technical solutions
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve products, code quality, architecture, and development workflows
• Write high-quality, efficient code while helping other engineers raise their coding standards
• Drive key technical and architectural decisions across the organization

• 10+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#
• Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved
• Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding
• A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices
• Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team
• A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed products
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment
• Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library  

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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.

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