Senior Engineering Manager - Fintech (Bangkok Based, Relocation Provided)

About Agoda At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. We are part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) and employ more than 7,000 people from 90 countries around the globe. Every day we connect people to destinations and experiences with our deals across millions of hotels, holiday properties, flights and experiences worldwide. Data and technology lie at the core of our culture, fueling curiosity and innovation.

Get to Know our Team In Agoda’s Engineering department we build scalable and fault‑tolerant systems that span website, mobile apps, affiliate APIs, inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, finance and more. These mission‑critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we employ CI/CD, experimentation, advanced testing and self‑healing techniques. We use languages such as React, Redux, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, Java, C# and data technologies like Kafka, Aerospike, and Big Data, all within an agile development environment.

The Opportunity As a Senior Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead multiple teams or a large engineering organization, driving technical direction, organisational scale, and business impact. Unlike the Engineering Manager role, this position focuses on leading managers, shaping strategy and driving cross‑team execution. You will also have the chance to lead teams on fintech‑related platforms and transaction‑heavy systems, including payments, financial operations and other business‑critical services where scalability, resilience, security and reliability are essential.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

Lead multiple engineering teams or a large organization.

Manage Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders.

Drive strategic, cross‑team initiatives and major engineering programs.

Set the technical roadmap and align it with business goals.

Partner with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, and C‑level stakeholders.

Develop engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring and performance management.

Hire and scale high‑performing teams and leadership talent.

Strengthen engineering culture through quality, ownership and data‑driven decisions.

Drive organisational excellence across backend, platform, data and fintech‑related engineering domains.

Oversee the delivery of scalable, reliable and secure systems that support high‑volume, business‑critical and transaction‑intensive workloads.

What you’ll Need to Succeed

Experience managing large engineering teams (>25 people).

Experience hiring and managing engineering managers.

Experience developing future engineering managers from within the company.

Experience rapidly growing a team.

Experience communicating to C‑level.

At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, 10+ years in software engineering.

Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility.

Able to operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership.

Extremely proficient in at least one programming language (React, Javascript, Kotlin, Scala, Java, C#).

Knowledge of scale, microservices and clean architecture.

A focus on velocity and quality, along with the right engineering metrics to guide and improve these.

Excellent people‑management and communication skills.

Minimum a B.S. in Computer Science or a quantitative field.

It’s great if you have many of these

Proficiency in a range of backend programming languages.

Experience in data engineering.

Experience managing in a data‑driven company with Big Data analytics.

A key player at an Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second.

Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers.

Experience in Fintech / Financial Systems.

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Equal Opportunity Employer At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being 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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