Backend Engineer Manager

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About the role

Agoda is hiring for the role of Backend Engineer Manager!

The work

Responsibilities of the Candidate

• Be hands on – its one of the job’s fundamental task, and most of our development managers are writing and reviewing code, giving expert level coaching and guidance to their engineers.
• It’s important to have a love of engineering and a passion for building things elegantly and at scale. Staying in touch with where the industry is going is crucial, and it’s important to have strong opinions about how systems should be architected, engineered, and maintained.
• Do full stack engineering: you should have solid experience in all parts of the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data, and others.
• Developing people – Despite our investment and belief in technology, people are still our greatest asset. The right candidate will have a keen interest in developing people: inspiring those around them so they can achieve their potential. Being able to bring A-players such as yourself from outside and integrating them into the business will also be important.

Who they want

Requirements

• Extremely proficient in at least 1 programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in 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 with autonomously: making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownership
• Practices data driven decision making