Staff Software Engineer

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 a global network of 4 7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide plus flights activities and more Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings our 7 100 employees representing 95 nationalities in 27 markets 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 We are a skillful driven and diverse team from across the globe united by a passion to make an impact Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone Get to Know our Team 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 The Opportunity Agoda is looking for developers to work on mission critical systems that deal with the designing and development of APIs that serve millions of user search requests a day In this Role you ll get to Lead development of features experiments technical projects and complex systems Be a technical architect mentor and driver towards the right technology Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices Get involved with software engineering and collaborate with server other client and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution Constantly look for ways to improve our products code-base and development practices Write great code and help others write great code Drive Technical decisions in the organization What You ll Need to Succeed 7 years experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala Java or C Experience in leading projects initiatives and or teams with full ownership of the systems involved Data platforms like SQL Cassandra or Hadoop You understand that different applications have different data requirements Good understanding of algorithms and data structures Strong coding ability You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills Excellent verbal and written English communication skills It s Great If You Have 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 india newdelhi Bangalore Bengaluru Pune Hyderabad Chennai Kolkata Lucknow IT ENG 4 Mumbai Delhi Noida Equal Opportunity Employer 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 We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file For more details please read our Disclaimer We do not accept any terms or conditions nor do we recognize any agency s representation of a candidate from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee