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# Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack (Bangkok based, relocation provided) at Agoda

- **Company:** Agoda
- **Location:** Bangkok, Thailand
- **Posted:** 2025-04-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/agoda/jobs/6750678

## Job description

## 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:

The Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.

The Opportunity:

Lead engineer is the key role in our technology organization working together with individual contributors and senior leadership. Our Lead engineers are heavily involved in the hiring and mentoring process and are the go-to people who design and implement new systems and components. We are looking for people who are passionate to take on more responsibility and driving major architectural changes in Agoda. It’s expected from you in this role as Lead engineer to push Agoda forward technically by adopting new technologies and setting higher standards.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

- Maintain ownership and responsibility of mission critical systems.
- Be hands on – build high volume platforms using cutting-edge technologies like React and GraphQL
- Mentor and coach other software engineers
- Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
- Design and lead crucial technical projects and initiatives cross teams and departments
- Stay on the leading edge of technical know-how, industry trends and drive technical innovations

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

- 12 years+ of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, etc., with a minimum of 3 year experiences as a Tech Lead
- B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred
- Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
- Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
- Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
- You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack.
- Great communication and coordination skills
- Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- You have a good command of the English language.

It’s Great if you have:

- Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions.
- Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc).
- Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus
- Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
- Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization,
- Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD.
- Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
- Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
- Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
- Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
- Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)

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Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.

Discover more about working at Agoda

- Agoda Careers [https://careersatagoda.com](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](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement).

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.

## About Agoda

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Agoda is a digital travel platform that helps travelers find great value deals on hotels, flights, and activities worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Public (subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc., NASDAQ: BKNG)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore
- **Founded**: 2005
- **Founders**: Robert Rosenstein and Michael Kenny

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Online travel and accommodation booking
- Target customers: B2C (leisure and business travelers globally)
- Mission/purpose: “Bridging the world through travel” – making travel easier, more affordable, and rewarding for everyone.

## Products & Services
- **[Agoda.com / Agoda mobile app]**: Online travel agency (OTA) offering booking for hotels, homes, villas, flights, and activities. Available in 39 languages with 24/7 customer support.
- **[Agoda Flights]**: Flight booking service launched in 2010.
- **[Agoda Easy Cancel / Hygiene Plus]**: Products introduced during the pandemic to offer flexible cancellation and enhanced cleanliness information.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed separately; parent company Booking Holdings has a market cap of approximately $140+ billion (as of mid-2025). Agoda is a key growth engine within the group.
- **Key Metric**: Over 7,000 employees; processes 1 trillion price checks daily; 2B+ user interactions captured daily; 12 PB of data processed monthly.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Wholly owned by Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG). Partnerships with over 6 million hotels and holiday properties globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to 27 markets; launched new products during COVID-19 (ASQ, Go Local, Easy Cancel); continues to hire aggressively across engineering, product, and analytics roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Data**: Access to Booking Holdings’ global network and massive data pipeline (12 PB/month, 1 trillion price checks/day) enables real-time pricing optimization and personalization.
- **Tech-First Culture**: Data-driven experimentation (1,000+ live experiments at any time), heavy use of GenAI, and a strong engineering focus.
- **Asia Home Base**: Deep roots in Asia-Pacific with a large office in Bangkok, giving local market insights and cost advantages.
- **Parent Support**: Backed by one of the world’s largest online travel companies, providing financial stability and cross-selling opportunities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth through technology**: Continued investment in AI, machine learning, and experimentation to improve search, pricing, and user experience.
- **Expanding product offerings**: Growing beyond accommodation into flights, activities, and domestic travel options.
- **Sustainability**: Integrating sustainability initiatives into operations and offerings.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring across multiple functions (engineering, product, data, marketing) to support global expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “data-driven to the core” with a focus on experimentation, ownership, and direct respect. Inclusive environment with 90+ nationalities represented.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid workplace balancing in-office and work-from-home days; employees can work from anywhere for up to 30 calendar days per year.
- **Benefits**: Competitive perks, flexible benefits, relocation support for key roles, and recognition as an award-winning workplace (Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies 2025, TIME/Statista World’s Best Companies 2023, Forbes World’s Top Companies for Women 2023).
- **Engineering & Analytics**: Strong emphasis on tech – 1,000+ live experiments, 12 PB data/month, and a “scientist” mindset across teams. Opportunities to work on massive-scale systems.
- **Community**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for belonging and inclusion; lively social events like AgodaFest.

## Sources
1. [agoda.com](https://www.agoda.com/about-agoda/)
2. [careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/our-culture/)
3. [careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/agoda)
5. [linkedin.com](https://au.linkedin.com/company/agoda)

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