Staff Software Engineer

About our Team

At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power a global travel platform serving millions of users daily. We own mission-critical domains across inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms.

Our systems run with high availability, low latency, and zero-downtime expectations, powered by modern technologies such as Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and Aerospike, along with strong foundations in CI/CD, automation, and observability. We ship fast—often dozens of releases a day—and design systems that are resilient, self-healing, and built to scale globally.

The Opportunity

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll own the design and reliability of a critical service or domain end-to-end — from architecture through production. Beyond writing code, you'll be expected to identify problems before they're assigned to you, make independent calls on ambiguous technical trade-offs within your domain, and raise the technical bar for your immediate team.

What You will Do

• Design, build, and own scalable distributed systems and microservices within your domain
• Lead development of complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end
• Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices for your team
• Own scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of the services you're responsible for
• Optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Mentor engineers on your team with a structured approach