Backend Engineer Manager (Gurugram based)

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 experi...

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.

Be hands on - its one of the job’s fundamental task, and most of our development managers are writing and reviewing code, giving expert level coaching and guidance to their engineers. 
It's important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
Do full stack engineering: you should have solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others. 
Developing people - Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important. 

 

Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems 
Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility 
Proficient in lower level engineering (Garbage collection, context switching, threading) 
DevOps culture – Agility. Leanness. Automation. CI/CD 
Good understanding of application security 
Passionate about technology and the Internet 
Must have worked in a successful agile development team 
Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports
Able to operate with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership 
Practices data driven decision making 

 
Proficiency in more than one programming language