Senior Engineering Manager - Fintech (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

Get to Know our Team:  

In Agoda’s Engineering department, we build the scalable and fault-tolerant systems.  Our systems cover all major areas of our business: 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 must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD, experimentation and advanced testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like React, Redux state management, Javascript,  Kotlin, Scala, data technologies like Kafka, Aerospike and Big Data, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or innovating on the latest fintech idea or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of our Engineering team. 

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Agoda, you will lead multiple teams or a large engineering organization, driving technical direction, organizational scale, and business impact. Unlike the Engineering Manager role, this position focuses more on leading managers, shaping strategy, and driving cross-team execution.

This role also offers the opportunity to lead teams working on fintech-related platforms and transaction-heavy systems, including areas connected to 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 organizational 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 of experience in software engineering.
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility
• Able to operate with 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 in 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 quantitative field;  

It’s great if you have many of these: 

• Proficiency in range of backend programming languages. 
• Experience in data engineering
• Have experience managing in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• 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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