Staff Software Engineer - Back End Ai (Gurugram based)

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 building next-generation backend systems that handle millions of user requests daily across our global travel  platform. We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to lead distributed systems architecture, mentor engineering teams, and drive technical strategy across our backend organization. In this role, you'll work on mission-critical systems: APIs serving millions of search requests, real-time booking infrastructure, and high-performance microservices powering the world's largest travel marketplace.

In this Role, you'll get to      

• Own end-to-end backend platform architecture — design scalable microservices and distributed systems across critical domains from vision through production
• Drive architectural decisions and establish REST API design standards that influence multiple teams and system domains
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives that improve service reliability, high availability, and performance at scale
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in high-throughput systems, surface technical debt, and build credible prioritized plans to address it
• Lead development of complex features and systems with full ownership 
• Mentor engineers at multiple levels, coach them to grow, and review code and designs in a way that builds capability
• Translate complex architectural trade-offs (cloud infrastructure, scalability, fault tolerance) into clear narratives for leadership and stakeholders
• Lead incident response in production, find root causes, mitigate impact, and keep stakeholders updated
• Exemplify technical excellence, build team culture rooted in feedback and continuous improvement, and serve as a role model for the backend organization

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Atleast 7 + years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#
• Demonstrate proven track record designing and evolving distributed systems architecture at massive scale
    (millions of requests/day)
• Demonstrate strong foundation in microservices, REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, algorithms, and system design
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives with deep cross-team ownership and influence through quality of
    Thinking
• Show passion for software craftsmanship, mentor and elevate engineering teams, and communicate complex system
    design to all audiences
•  Excellent communication: can articulate complex system design to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike

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  

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