Lead Software Engineer - Back End (Gurugram based)

Get to Know our Team:  

In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

The Opportunity:      

Agoda is looking for developers to work on mission critical systems that deal with the designing and development of APIs that serve millions of user search requests a day.

In this Role, you'll get to

• Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems 
• Be a technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology 
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software
• Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices 
• Get involved with software engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution
• Constantly look for ways to improve our products, code-base and development practices 
• Write great code and help others write great code
• Drive Technical decisions in the organization.

What You’ll Need to Succeed 

• At least 10+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#. 
• Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved 
• Data platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements 
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structures 
• Demonstrated strong coding ability. 
• Proven track record of enhancing team productivity and effectiveness through a KPI-driven approach. 
• Strong architectural skills, actively driving architectural decision-making within the team. 
• You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills 
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills 

It’s Great If You Have 

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed products
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for