Lead Software Engineer - Back End (Gurugram based)

About Agoda At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you're ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. Get to Know our Team: In Agoda's Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and 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 Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, 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 reimagining our existing business, you'll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team. The Opportunity: Agoda is looking for developers to work on mission critical systems that deal with the designing and development of APIs that serve millions of user search requests a day. In this Role, you'll get to Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems Be a technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices Get involved with software engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution Constantly look for ways to improve our products, code-base and development practices Write great code and help others write great code Drive Technical decisions in the organization. What You'll Need To Succeed At least 10+ years' experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#. Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved Data platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements Good understanding of algorithms and data structures Demonstrated strong coding ability. Proven track record of enhancing team productivity and effectiveness through a KPI-driven approach. Strong architectural skills, actively driving architectural decision-making within the team. You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills Excellent verbal and written English communication skills It's Great If You Have Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies Experience building large-scale distributed products Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library #india #newdelhi #Bangalore #Pune #Hyderabad #Chennai #Kolkata #Lucknow #IT #ENG #4 #Mumbai #Delhi #Noida Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. 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