Senior Data Engineer – Display Marketing Team (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

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This role is part of Agoda’s Display & App Marketing engineering team, focused on building and improving large-scale systems that power paid marketing across global advertising channels, including Display Ads and App Install campaigns.

Our systems handle high-volume hotel feeds (price, availability, content), image processing for advertisements, advertising platform integrations (Google Ads, Meta, etc.), and data pipelines that support experimentation and optimization.

You will work closely with Marketing, Product, and Data teams to deliver reliable, efficient, and scalable engineering solutions, with strong exposure to marketing strategy, experimentation, and real business impact. The team is growing and evolving, giving you the opportunity to shape systems and ways of working end-to-end—from design and implementation to operational excellence at global scale.

 

In this Role, you will get to

• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that support paid marketing use cases, including hotel feeds, ad platform integrations, and experiment data
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive implementation of production systems running at scale
• Take part in the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Proactively identify and improve system reliability, scalability, data quality, and operational efficiency
• Write clear, maintainable code and actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and other Engineering teams to clarify requirements and deliver effective solutions
• Support and improve the team’s engineering standards, including CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation
• Make technical trade-offs across performance, quality, and cost
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and knowledge sharing, in line with your experience and interests

 

What You’ll need to Succeed

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend and/or data engineering
• Strong proficiency in Scala (preferred) or another JVM language (e.g. Java, Kotlin)
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Experience building and operating data processing and pipeline systems, e.g. Spark, Kafka, workflow orchestration tools
• Experience with messaging or asynchronous systems (e.g. RabbitMQ)
• Experience designing and operating production systems with performance, scalability, and reliability in mind
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and perform effective root cause analysis
• Experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams
• Strong English communication skills, written and verbal
• An engineering-driven mindset, with solid analytical and problem-solving abilities

 

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