Lead Software Engineer | BackEnd (Gurugram based)

3 weeks, 1 day ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Agoda

Agoda

Agoda is an online travel agency that specializes in providing a vast selection of accommodation options worldwide, ensuring customers access to competitive pricing and a user-friendly booking experience.

Consumer Services
10K-50K
Founded 2005

Description

  • Lead end-to-end architecture and development of complex distributed systems.
  • Drive system design, API standards, and engineering practices across teams.
  • Own the delivery and technical direction of key systems and initiatives.
  • Lead large technical projects in collaboration with multiple teams.
  • Make key technical decisions that affect multiple components and systems.
  • Balance technical trade-offs against business impact and scalability goals.
  • Stay hands-on with coding and system design when needed.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the team’s capability and quality bar.
  • Align stakeholders and drive execution across teams.
  • Lead production stability, incident management, and systemic improvements.

Requirements

  • Proven experience delivering complex distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong expertise in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and architecture.
  • Strong experience with API design and microservices.
  • Experience with performance, scalability, and system reliability.
  • Experience leading large technical initiatives end-to-end.
  • Strong ability to drive decisions and guide teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills.
  • Experience building or owning large-scale platforms across multiple services or domains is preferred.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures such as Kafka in high-scale systems is preferred.
  • Experience with cloud architecture such as AWS or GCP, CI/CD, and DevOps practices is preferred.
  • Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives or migrations is preferred.
  • Familiarity with data platforms such as Spark or Hadoop, or other high-volume data systems, is preferred.
  • Experience working in global product organizations with distributed teams is preferred.

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