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.
Build systems that power millions of global travel experiences
Design and scale high-performance backend systems handling millions of requests daily across a global platform used by millions of travelers.
About our Team
At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power a global travel platform serving millions of users daily. We own mission-critical domains across inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms.
Our systems run with high availability, low latency, and zero-downtime expectations, powered by modern technologies such as Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and Aerospike, along with strong foundations in CI/CD, automation, and observability.
We ship fast—often dozens of releases a day—and design systems that are resilient, self-healing, and built to scale globally.
The Opportunity
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will drive the design and development of scalable distributed systems, working on high-impact backend services.
You’ll combine hands-on coding, system design, and technical leadership, contributing to complex systems and influencing engineering practices.
What You will Do
- Design and build scalable distributed systems and microservices
- Lead development of complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end
- Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices
- Own scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of services
- Optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Contribute to cross-team collaboration and system alignment
- Stay hands-on with coding and system design (50–60%)
- Mentor engineers and support overall team capability growth
- Participate in technical decision-making and architectural improvements
- Handle production issues, RCA, and continuous improvements
What We’re Looking For
- 8–12 years of backend engineering experience
- Strong experience building distributed systems at scale
- Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go
Strong understanding of:
- Microservices architecture
- REST APIs & system design
- SQL/NoSQL databases
- Performance, scalability, and concurrency
- Strong coding + problem-solving ability
- Ability to contribute to technical decisions and mentor engineers
Nice to Have
- Experience building large-scale consumer or marketplace platforms
- Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike)
- Familiarity with cloud (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
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Discover more about working at Agoda
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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
- 7+ years developing performance-critical applications using Scala, Java or C#
- Experience leading projects, initiatives or teams with full ownership
- Experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop
- Good understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Strong coding ability
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Experience building large-scale distributed products
- Familiarity with Git, TeamCity and Puppet (CI/CD and deployment tooling)
- Hands-on experience with queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka
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
