Senior Software Engineer Full Stack, Payment (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

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

Join Agoda's Wallet team to help build and scale innovative financial products for travelers. This is a greenfield project using the latest technology stack, offering the chance to work on high-impact solutions in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

The Opportunity

We are looking for Software Engineers to join our Payment team. You'll play a key role in designing, developing, and scaling new payment features, supporting multi-currency conversion and card issuance for global travelers.

You'll be using the most current technologies and best practices to accomplish our goals. Our typical day involves the creation of new end-to-end systems, building advanced architecture, developing new features, and working in a culture that is always looking to improve our quality, tools, and efficiency.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure features for the payment system
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business goals
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and contribute to best practices
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize systems for performance and reliability
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in payments and digital wallets
• Contribute to a greenfield project with ambitious long-term plans, tackling real-time foreign exchange and hedging challenges

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• Overall experience of 5+ years of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks especially React.js
• Backend: Prefer experience with Java, C#, Scala, Golang or Kotlin
• 3+ years of experience in fintech or traditional finance with FX (foreign exchange) experience
• B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field M.S. preferred
• Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
• Excellent HTML/CSS skills - you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
• Excellent understanding of object-orientedTypeScript
• You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack
• Great communication and coordination skills
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• You have a good command of the English language

It's Great if you have:

• Familiarity with card issuing, FX, or FX quote/rates or VDC (Virtual Debit Card)
• Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams
• Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc)
• Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus
• Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
• Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization
• Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD
• Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
• Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
• Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
• Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)

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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Disclaimer

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