Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Bidding (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

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.

• Lead the team technically in improving scalability, stability, accuracy, speed and efficiency of our existing ML systems and processes.
  Build, administer and scale ML processing pipelines.
• Be comfortable navigating the following technology stack: Python3, Scala Spark, scripting (Bash/Python), Hadoop, SQL, S3 etc.
• Should be able to understand internals of ML models such as LightGBM, Random Forest, CNN, Regression models, etc
• Design, build, test and deploy new libraries, frameworks or full systems for our core systems while keeping to the highest standards of testing and code quality.
• Work with experienced engineers and product owners to identify and build tools to automate many large-scale data management / analysis tasks.
• We believe in end-to-end ownership; this role will involve taking and building systems that enable us to deliver ML models to production at a scale.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science /information systems/engineering/related field
  6+ years of experience in software engineering with a minimum of 4+ years in ML
• Expert in SQL, Python3, and JVM based programming language – ie, Java or Scala
• Expert in software design/design patterns, functional programming and object-oriented programming.
• Analytical problem-solving capabilities & experience.
  A strong engineering driven mindset will be required to succeed in this role.

• Good understanding of Hadoop ecosystems and Big Data architecture and techologies
• Experience working with Open-source products
• Experience with Scala development
• Working in an agile environment using test driven methodologies
• Systems administration skills in Linux

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