Backend Engineer Manager (Gurugram based)

Overview

Lead one or more of Agoda's Back End Engineering teams as a hands-on Engineering Manager, combining technical excellence with people development.

What you'll do

• Be hands on: write and review code, and give expert-level coaching and guidance to your engineers.
• Do full stack engineering across infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others.
• Develop people: inspire those around you so they can achieve their potential.
• Bring A-players from outside the business and integrate them into the team.

What you'll need

• Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#).
• Strong experience in systems architecture, particularly complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems.
• Demonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibility.
• Proficient in lower level engineering (garbage collection, context switching, threading).
• DevOps culture: agility, leanness, automation, CI/CD.
• Good understanding of application security.
• Passionate about technology and the Internet.
• Must have worked in a successful agile development team.
• Must have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reports.
• Able to operate autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership.
• Practices data driven decision making.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in more than one programming language.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.
• Relocation package will be provided.