Staff Software Engineer – Full Stack (Gurugram Based)

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more . Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose – Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.

We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

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:

Staff 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 Staff engineer to push Agoda forward technically by adopting new technologies and setting higher standards.

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• At least 8 years of experience of extensive background in front-end development, working with client-side frameworks on large-scale applications (React is highly preferred).
• Strong core front-end skill set in JavaScript and the TypeScript ecosystem.
• Strong architecture skills and drive decision-making in the team.
• Experience working with component libraries.
• Strong product sense and a passion for client-side performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to drive changes and impact across various teams.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions and is motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
  
  

It’s Great if you have:

• Machine Learning, GPT, prompt engineering and other AI project experience
• Candidates with JVM language experience – Scala/Kotlin/Java and Python would be preferred
• 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, Scylla DB, 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
• 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
  
  

This position is based in Gurgaon, India.

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.

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