The Opportunity :
The Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on – technically excellent, with solid engineering principles – and exhibits strong leadership and people development skills. We are looking for world class development managers to lead one or more of our engineering teams.
In this Role, you’ll get to :
- 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.
What you’ll Need to Succeed :
Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systemsDemonstrable experience as a system owner with operational responsibilityProficient in lower level engineering (Garbage collection, context switching, threading)DevOps culture – Agility. Leanness. Automation. CI / CDGood understanding of application securityPassionate about technology and the InternetMust have worked in a successful agile development teamMust have run engineering teams before with 5+ direct reportsAble to operate with autonomously : making decisions, setting KPIs, with a strong sense of ownershipPractices data driven decision makingIt’s Great if you have :
Proficiency in more than one programming languageThis position is based in Gurugram, India. Relocation package will be provided.