About Agoda
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.
Get to Know our Team:
Join a team of talented engineers who are passionate about front-end development. Our team is dedicated to building cutting-edge web applications using Typescript, React, and Redux.
The Opportunity:
As a Front-End Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead a team of talented engineers building scalable, high-performance web applications that power user experiences at global scale. You will work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and cross-functional engineering teams to develop user-facing applications and platforms that integrate AI capabilities into Agoda’s products at global scale..
In this Role, you’ll get to:
- Lead a team of engineers building scalable, reliable, and user-friendly web applications and product experiences.
- Drive the development of front-end and full-stack solutions across core product areas, including selected AI-enabled features and workflows.
- Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive and impactful customer or internal user experiences.
- Shape architecture across areas such as state management, SSR, micro-frontends, and API integration.
- Ensure new features, including AI-assisted capabilities where relevant, are performant, maintainable, observable, and production-ready.
- Guide the team in designing interfaces and workflows that surface recommendations, automation, or intelligent product enhancements in a usable and reliable way.
- Improve application quality through engineering best practices including code reviews, testing, experimentation, and continuous delivery.
- Support integration with backend services through REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, and other service interfaces.
- Drive technical decisions around performance, reliability, monitoring, and maintainability in production.
- Mentor engineers and grow team capability in both modern web engineering and evolving product development practices.
What you’ll Need to Succeed:
- Bring strong experience leading teams building large-scale web applications with React, Angular, or Vue.
- Demonstrate solid hands-on expertise in JavaScript / TypeScript and front-end development.
- Apply strong knowledge of web performance optimization, scalability, and frontend best practices.
- Show experience integrating frontend applications with backend services through REST, GraphQL, or WebSockets.
- Drive strong technical and people leadership, with proven mentoring and coaching ability.
- Collaborate effectively with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.
- Contribute to architectural decisions across SSR, micro-frontends, and state management.
- Operate with a strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment for web applications.
- Communicate clearly and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
It’s Great if you have:
- Bring exposure to full-stack development and backend technologies such as C#, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Demonstrate familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
- Show experience with mobile web, cross-platform frameworks, or cloud platforms.
- Apply experience with analytics, A/B testing, and SEO for large-scale web products.
- Demonstrate experience building customer-facing products in high-traffic or global-scale environments.
Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.
Discover more about working at Agoda
- Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda
- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife
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 privacy policy.
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.
Skills Required
- Experience leading teams building large-scale web applications with React, Angular, or Vue.
- Hands-on expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript front-end development.
- Strong knowledge of web performance optimization, scalability, and frontend best practices.
- Experience integrating frontend applications with backend services via REST, GraphQL, or WebSockets.
- Technical and people leadership with proven mentoring and coaching ability.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, data, and engineering stakeholders.
- Contribute to architectural decisions across SSR, micro-frontends, and state management.
- Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment for web applications.
- Clear communication and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Exposure to full-stack development and backend technologies such as C#, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
- Experience with mobile web, cross-platform frameworks, or cloud platforms.
- Experience with analytics, A/B testing, and SEO for large-scale web products.
- Experience building customer-facing products in high-traffic or global-scale environments.
Agoda Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Agoda and has not been reviewed or approved by Agoda.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible allowances like “Agoda Choice” are presented as customizable for health, learning, travel, fitness, or wellness, which can increase perceived value beyond base pay. Reimbursement-style options are also described as usable for a wide range of personal needs, from training to wellness expenses.
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Healthcare Strength — Health-related coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical and life insurance and, in some places, dental and vision. Mental-health and support resources such as an Employee Assistance Program and unlimited Headspace access are also highlighted.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Hybrid/remote arrangements and a work-from-anywhere style program are positioned as benefits that support work-life balance. Travel-related perks such as employee discounts and automatic Platinum membership add lifestyle value for employees who use the platform.
Agoda Insights
What We Do
Agoda is transforming travel for millions of customers across the globe. Headquartered in Asia, Agoda is one of the world’s largest online travel platforms. Founded in 2005 and now part of Booking Holdings (Nasdaq:BKNG), Agoda has a network of over 2,900,000 properties worldwide. Our web and mobile products provide a first-rate reservation service in 38 languages that uniquely combines local knowledge and local connections to provide the best deals for business and leisure travelers. Agoda employs over 7,000 professionals from 90 nationalities in locations around the globe. In every department – from engineering to customer experience – we provide an environment rich with creativity, collaboration, and experimentation, and the tools to work faster and smarter. At Agoda, we believe our people are our strength. We work hard and have fun, and we choose people who are dedicated to making things great. For properties seeking partnership with Agoda, visit https://connect.agoda.com
