Lead Software Engineer | BackEnd (Gurugram based)
Quick Summary
Distributed systems and architecture API design and microservices Performance, scalability, and system reliability System design for high-throughput,
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.
We ship fast — with dozens of daily releases — and design systems that are resilient, scalable, and continuously evolving.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex distributed systems at scale.
- →Own the technical direction, delivery, and evolution of critical systems and platforms.
- →Drive system design, API standards, software architecture, and engineering best practices across teams.
- →Lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple services, teams, and stakeholders.
- →Make key technical decisions, balancing business priorities with scalability, reliability, and maintainability goals.
- →Remain an active contributor to production systems through regular coding, code reviews, system design, and technical problem-solving, balancing hands-on execution with leadership responsibilities.
- →Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise technical capability, code quality, and engineering standards.
- →Drive continuous improvements in development processes, engineering effectiveness, and agile ways of working.
- →Align stakeholders and drive execution across cross-functional teams.
- →Lead production stability, incident management, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- →Proactively identify opportunities to improve products, platforms, developer productivity, and customer experience
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Experience building and operating large-scale backend systems in production environments.
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Proven experience delivering complex distributed systems at scale.
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Strong expertise in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go.
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Strong software architecture skills with a track record of driving architectural decisions within and across teams.
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Proven experience leading technical initiatives, projects, or engineering teams with end-to-end ownership.
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Recent and ongoing hands-on coding experience in production environments is required.
Deep expertise in:
- Distributed systems and architecture
- API design and microservices
- Performance, scalability, and system reliability
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System design for high-throughput, highly available applications
Nice to Have
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Experience building or owning large-scale platforms across multiple services or domains.
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Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka.
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Experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS or GCP.Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
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Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives, platform modernization, or large-scale migrations.
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Familiarity with high-volume data systems, Spark, Hadoop, or related data platform technologies.
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Experience working in global product organizations with distributed engineering teams.
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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.
We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.
We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.
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Listing Details
- Posted
- June 29, 2026
- First seen
- June 29, 2026
- Last seen
- July 11, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 67%
- Scored at
- June 29, 2026
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