01Overview
Agoda's backend team owns the mission critical domains of a global travel platform: inventory,
pricing, booking, payments and the customer and partner platforms. These are high scale, fault
tolerant distributed systems running with high availability, low latency and zero downtime
expectations, shipped dozens of times a day. The stack is Scala, Go, Java and Kotlin with Kafka and
Aerospike, on strong CI/CD, automation and observability foundations. What makes this posting good is
its honesty about the split: it says you stay hands-on with coding and system design 50 to 60 percent
of the time, which is a rare and useful number to publish at staff level. Apply if you want booking
and payments scale, where consistency problems are real rather than hypothetical.
Who it is for: Requirements. 8 to 12 years of backend engineering experience. Experience with NoSQL databases such
as Cassandra, MongoDB or Aerospike.
What you would do. Design and build scalable distributed systems and microservices. Lead development
of complex features and technical initiatives end to end. Drive system design, API design and
engineering best practice. Own scalability, performance, reliability and fault tolerance of services.
Optimise high throughput, low latency systems. Contribute to cross team collaboration and system
alignment. Stay hands-on with coding and system design 50 to 60 percent of the time. Mentor engineers
and support team capability growth. Participate in technical decision making and architectural
improvements. Handle production issues, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
The 50 to 60 percent number is worth the price of admission. Very few staff level postings tell you
how much of the job is still coding. Agoda does, in writing, which means you can hold them to it and
you know what you are signing up for.
The team and stack. High scale, fault tolerant distributed systems for a platform serving millions of
users daily, owning inventory, pricing, booking, payments and customer and partner platforms. Systems
run with high availability, low latency and zero downtime expectations using Scala, Go, Java and
Kotlin with Kafka and Aerospike. The team ships dozens of releases a day.
Visa. Agoda records "Visa sponsored: False" on this requisition and the title says Gurugram based,
so this is for candidates already able to work in India. Department is listed as IT Engineering.
Who this is for. A backend engineer with eight or more years who wants scale and wants to keep
writing code. JVM and Scala experience transfers most directly. Agoda also runs a Level 5 version at
11+ years in the same office, also in this edition, which adds architecture and cross team leadership. .
