Lead/Staff Software Engineer – Android (Bangkok based, relocation provided) at Agoda

The Opportunity:

We are looking for mobile technology experts to join our select team of Technology Leads. Our Technology Leads have unique knowledge and abilities and lead our highly scaled mobile application development team to success. You must be a strong technical implementer and leader who can guide our staff beyond our already high standards of engineering to the next level.

Our technology leads are contributors to our code base sometimes developing whole new open source projects themselves in the doing. They code themselves, introduce new technologies, and provide excellent code reviews. As gold standards of excellence, they coach and guide their fellow engineers.

In this Role, you’ll get to: 

• Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems 
• Full leadership of new technical projects and directions. Create new business opportunities.
• Give presentations, bring new ideas and directions to the team, create and run mentoring sessions. Contribute to and growing the knowledge base of the technical staff.
• Stay on the leading edge of technical know-how, industry trends, management approaches, and create an environment of always learning and always innovating.
• Lead and mentor other technical team members 
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software in advanced  Kotlin/Java
• Get involved with full stack engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution 

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• At least 7 years of experience in advanced software engineering driving organizations in new directions, innovating, building advanced systems
• B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred 
• Be a leader, technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology 
• Expert level in one or more mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Web), both iOS and Android knowledge preferred
• Expert level in at least one programming language (Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, JavaScript, Java, Scala, C#)
• Expert level in modern mobile and server coding and design practices. For example, VIPER, MVVM, MVP, SOLID principals, and TDD
• Solid knowledge of server technologies, databases, distributed systems, load balancing; Docker and Kubernetes experience preferred
• Experience in a DevOps culture – Agility. Leanness. Automation. CI/CD.
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems

It’s Great if you have:

• Experience in multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
• Have worked on an App or Internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
• Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
• Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
• Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data