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Lead Software Engineer (Level 5) | BackEnd (Gurugram based)

Agoda Verified employer

Full time
Experience
11+ years
Location
Gurgaon
Work mode
Not stated
Salary
₹10L – ₹24L a year estimatetypical for IT Jobs in India, 910 posts
Posted 4 months ago Last checked 11 min ago

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Role at a glance

You will
  • Lead Backend Engineer, you will
  • own critical systems end-to-end, drive technical direction, and lead large initiatives.
  • architecture, execution, and technical leadership to build scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions that power Agoda's global…
Experience
11+ years

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Job description

Location: Gurugram; Gurgaon, India
Department: Information Technology

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.

About the Team

At Agoda, our Backend Engineering organization builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power a global travel platform serving millions of users daily. Our systems span mission-critical domains including inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms.

We operate with high availability, low latency, and zero-downtime expectations, leveraging technologies like Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and Aerospike, supported by strong practices in CI/CD, automation, and observability, and engineering excellence.

We ship fast — with dozens of daily releases — and design systems that are resilient, scalable, and continuously evolving.

The Opportunity
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will own critical systems end-to-end, drive technical direction, and lead large initiatives. You will combine architecture, execution, and technical leadership to build scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions that power Agoda's global platform. You will influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate team, mentor engineers, shape development practices, and help raise the organization’s technical bar.


What You’ll Do

  • 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


What We’re Looking For

  • 11+ Years experience building and operating large-scale backend systems in production environments.

  • Proven experience delivering complex distributed systems at scale.

  • Strong expertise in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go.

  • Strong software architecture skills with a track record of driving architectural decisions within and across teams.

  • Proven experience leading technical initiatives, projects, or engineering teams with end-to-end ownership.

  • 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
  • System design for high-throughput, highly available applications

Nice to Have

  • Experience building or owning large-scale platforms across multiple services or domains.

  • Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka.

  • Experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS or GCP.Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, automation, and modern software delivery practices.

  • Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives, platform modernization, or large-scale migrations.

  • Familiarity with high-volume data systems, Spark, Hadoop, or related data platform technologies.

  • Experience working in global product organizations with distributed engineering teams.

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Discover more about working at Agoda

Equal Opportunity Employer 

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.

Disclaimer

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.

Key skills

Preferred

AWSCI/CDHadoopKafka

Job market insights

₹10L – ₹24L advertised yearly salary for IT Jobs in India (middle half of 910 posts that show a salary; median ₹17L)
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Questions about this job

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How much experience does this job need?

The post asks for 11 Yrs experience.

Where is this job based?

In Gurgaon.

What kind of job is this?

It is a full time job.

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