Staff Software Engineer Android (Bangkok based)

Get to Know our Team:

The Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda's marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.

The Opportunity:

Our App platform team tackles Infrastructure pain points head on. The end goal is to create a robust ecosystem that the wider mobile org can reliably build within and on top of, and members of the App platform team dedicate their time and attention entirely towards this end. Examples of this include CI/CD improvements, App architecture and core-libraries improvements, dev experience improvements, Customer experience improvements.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining Android applications, that integrate with the platform's core services and APIs
• Working closely with designers, product managers, and other developers to define requirements, design features, and deliver a cohesive user experience
• Establishing and enforcing best practices for app testing and quality assurance
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for optimization across the technology stack, focusing on cost, efficiency, velocity & dev happiness
• Enabling impactful collaboration and cross-team projects on big projects, making a dent in the quality of our services, code & architecture
• Providing thoughtful feedback, nurture an inclusive engineering environment, and champion engineering fundamentals. Bring out the best from your fellow engineers.
• Exhibiting technical leadership throughout the broader organization, conveying complex technical trade-offs to non-techies such as business owners & C-suite executives.

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• Overall experience of 6+ years in engineering roles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven hands-on experience with owning production services with significant impact on design, development, deployment, monitoring & evolution
• Advanced proficiency in modern App development frameworks and architectural choices
• Advanced understanding of cross-platform technology usage in mobile App development like React Native, Web-views, flutter etc.
• Deep understanding of app development challenges and solutions
• Expert-level knowledge of testing methodologies, tools, and best practices
• Proven track record of optimizing applications for better performance
• Strong understanding of security and accessibility standards
• Can perform deep research & take decisions on complex projects. Able to easily toggle between running as a lone wolf and also works great as part of a pack
• Curiosity, staying on the cutting-edge of technological improvements and open source advancement
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical details to stakeholders at all levels

It's Great if you have:

• Experience in multiple 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)