Tokyo Agoda

Lead Software Engineer

As a key role in our technology organization, the Lead Software Engineer works collaboratively with individual contributors and senior leadership to drive major architectural changes at Agoda. The ideal candidate will be passionate about taking on more responsibility and adopting new technologies to push Agoda forward technically.

In this Role, you'll get to:

  • Maintain ownership and responsibility of mission-critical systems
  • Be hands-on – build high-volume platforms using cutting-edge technologies like React and GraphQL
  • Mentor and coach other software engineers
  • Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
  • Design and lead crucial technical projects and initiatives across teams and departments
  • Stay on the leading edge of technical know-how, industry trends, and drive technical innovations

What you'll Need to Succeed:

  • 10 years of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, and a minimum of 3 years as a Tech Lead role
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a quantitative field is required; a master's degree is preferred. Alternatively, a minimum of 10 years of experience in the relevant field is acceptable
  • Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing, and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
  • Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
  • Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
  • You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack.
  • Great communication and coordination skills
  • Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • You have a good command of the English language.

It's Great if you have:

  • 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, ScyllaDB, 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
  • Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization
  • Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principles, and TDD
  • 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
  • Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data


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