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
We build the platforms and applications that help Agoda teams use generative AI in their daily work. Our scope includes shared model access, agent platforms, internal assistants, product tools and AI coding workflows. Based in Singapore, you will work with engineers and stakeholders across Agoda, including teams in other locations.
The Opportunity
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, build and run GenAI services, agents and applications that solve practical problems for Agoda teams. You will own delivery end-to-end - from understanding user needs and selecting a technical approach, through testing, release and production support. Your project focus will depend on your strengths and business priorities, and you will work with product, data and engineering partners to deliver agreed outcomes.
What You Will Do
- Design, build and run GenAI services, agents and applications that solve practical problems for Agoda teams.
- Own the delivery lifecycle: understand user needs, select a technical approach, and support testing, release and production operations.
- Improve AI quality, reliability, latency and cost using evaluations, monitoring and user feedback.
- Build reusable APIs, tools and integrations with appropriate access controls and data protection.
- Lead technical design discussions, make engineering decisions, and help other engineers improve their code and designs through constructive feedback.
What You Will Bring
- At least 8 years of professional software-engineering experience, including delivering and operating complex production systems.
- At least 5 years of experience coding in one of the following modern programming languages: Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, C#, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience building GenAI applications, agents, platforms, or AI-agent-serving systems, with demonstrable examples of your contribution.
- Experience designing, testing and shipping reliable software through CI/CD, including debugging and resolving production issues.
- Demonstrable examples of AI problem solving and of owning cross-functional team projects.
- Ability to communicate effectively in English with stakeholders across international teams
It is Great if You Have
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, agent orchestration or automated AI evaluation.
- Experience evaluating agentic solutions.
- Depth in one area such as distributed systems, frontend and full-stack applications, data pipelines, developer tools or ML infrastructure.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, observability, privacy controls, or improving AI quality and operating costs.
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
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- 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
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including delivering and operating complex production systems.
- At least 5 years of experience coding in Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, C#, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience building GenAI applications, agents, platforms, or AI-agent-serving systems, with demonstrable contributions.
- Experience designing, testing, and shipping reliable software through CI/CD.
- Experience debugging and resolving production issues.
- Demonstrable AI problem-solving experience and ownership of cross-functional team projects.
- Ability to communicate effectively in English with stakeholders across international teams.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, agent orchestration, or automated AI evaluation.
- Experience evaluating agentic solutions.
- Depth in distributed systems, frontend and full-stack applications, data pipelines, developer tools, or ML infrastructure.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, observability, privacy controls, or improving AI quality and operating costs.
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
