Engineering Manager

**About Agoda**

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

**Our Purpose -**Bridging the World Through Travel**

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.
We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

**Get to Know our Team**:
The Front-End Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda's marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.

**The Opportunity**:
**Project Description**:
This project is centered on building advanced customer-facing AI-powered bots that elevate user experiences across multiple platforms. These bots are designed to simplify the pre-booking journey by providing quick, accurate responses to customer inquiries. By combining cutting-edge technology with a deep understanding of user behavior, the team ensures the bots are intuitive, efficient, and aligned with business goals.

**In this Role, you'll get to**:

- Maintain ownership and responsibility of mission critical systems.
- Guide one or more Agile teams to success.
- Get involved with full stack, server, and mobile app engineering and guide server, client, and infrastructure technical staff to the best solutions.
- Directly manage between 5 and 10 technology professionals and be responsible for their performance at the company.

**What you'll Need to Succeed**:

- At least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams of 3 people and more, 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Proficient with** front-end (FE)** **web client-side technologies (React, Redux state management, JavaScript, SASS, Performance optimization)**:

- Knowledge in **back-end (BE) development, with experience in Kotlin and/or Python preferred.**:

- Knowledge in scale, microservices and clean architecture.
- Excellent people management and communication skills.
- B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred

**It's Great if you have**:

- Machine Learning, GPT, prompt engineering and other AI project experience
- Experience working with **Large Language Models (LLMs)** or related AI/ML technologies is a significant plus.

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**Equal Opportunity Employer**

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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