Job Opportunities at Agoda

What’s product design like at Agoda?

Typically, product designers at Agoda work alongside a product manager, 6-8 engineers, researchers, and cross-functional partners. Together they drive their own segment of Agoda, deliver solutions to problems and get feedback directly from users and internal partners.

Day to day, it looks like

• As a Product Designer on the Activities team, you will play a key role to craft a holistic customer experience that is easy-to-use, trustworthy and delightful
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the future vision and product strategy
• Gain insights through research by benchmarking Agoda vs our competitors, identifying user needs and quantifying user behavior through user interaction data
• Translate research findings into tangible product improvements
• A strong approach towards design through experimentations and optimization to achieve desired outcomes
• Present your work to peers and leadership, async and in-person
• Participate in weekly design critiques, workshops, all hands, and squad meetings
• Champion cohesion and consistency in UX design that unites a growing family of products/features
• Represent a customer-centric intersection between design, business, and technology

As a Product Designer at Agoda, this means you have a track record of

Successfully working in a product team, shipping complex products and collaborating successfully with stakeholders to achieve key results

• Working in an agile development process
• A strong approach towards design through experimentations and optimization to achieve valuable outcomes
• You work alongside your design partners in driving discovery and ideation workshops and align the group around a vision and approach
• You have a track record of crafting sophisticated flows and customer journeys
• You can think and craft at a system level, not just interface elements or pages
• You regularly make use of your soft skills: listening, negotiating, decision-making
• You can balance multiple priorities and successfully deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experience in travel products is a plus

Qualities we value in designers:

• Effective articulation of ideas, design decisions and solutions
• Leading collaboration with your stakeholders across design, product, engineering & research to achieve successful business and customer outcomes
• Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
• Embracing ambiguity and possessing a healthy curiosity
• Ability to translate both quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
• Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity

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In this role, you’ll get to:
 

• Take wnership of analytical projects end to end from extracting and exploring data, generating hypothesis, building a structured analysis, and rigorously evaluating methods and results
• Provide analytical and valuable insights for decision-making support for key projects and management
• Work closely with various business functions to identify opportunities, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets using different techniques and tools such as R studio or Tableau
• Communicate findings and propose actionable recommendations to address the problems

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Math or Engineering or Economics and Finance
• 5+ years in Data Analyst position or otherwise in projects involving big data
• People management and strong commercial acumen
• Proficient in business intelligence tools and data warehouse i.e. SQL, Tableau and MS Excel
• Must be data savvy and love crunching numbers
• Strong analytical and statistical analysis skills in order to extract insights and recommendations
• Fluent in English with strong communication skills (both written and verbal)

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The Opportunity

We are looking for key contributors to our industry leading front-end websites. You’ll be working on products which have evolved tremendously over the past several years to become the global market leader.

You’ll be using the most current technologies and best practices to accomplish our goals. Our typical day involves the creation of new end to end systems, building advanced architectures, creation of new features on our high uptime / frequently published websites and apps, development of fast and reliable automated testing systems and working in a culture that is always looking to improve our quality, tools, and efficiency.

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
• Build high volume websites with current technologies including TS, React, and GraphQL
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software
• Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
• 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 3 years of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, etc. 5+ years preferred
• B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred
• Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing, GIT Flow
• Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
• 3-5+ years’ experience developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using one of the backend languages/frameworks such as .NET, .NET Core, Java, Scala, NodeJS, Go or Python
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
• You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack
• Great communication and coordination skills
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• You have a good command of the English language

It’s Great if you have

• Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (CouchBase, ElasticSearch, Redis), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ)
• Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
• Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization,
• Extremely proficient in modern mobile and server coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD.
• Experience in multiple front-end 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

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The Opportunity

We are looking for key contributors to our industry leading front-end websites. You’ll be working on products which have evolved tremendously over the past several years to become the global market leader.

You’ll be using the most current technologies and best practices to accomplish our goals. Our typical day involves the creation of new end to end systems, building advanced architectures, creation of new features on our high uptime / frequently published websites and apps, development of fast and reliable automated testing systems and working in a culture that is always looking to improve our quality, tools, and efficiency.

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
• Build high volume websites with current technologies including TS, React, and GraphQL
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software
• Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
• 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 3 years of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, etc. 5+ years preferred
• B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred
• Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing, GIT Flow
• Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
• 3-5+ years’ experience developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using one of the backend languages/frameworks such as .NET, .NET Core, Java, Scala, NodeJS, Go or Python
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
• You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack
• Great communication and coordination skills
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• You have a good command of the English language

It’s Great if you have

• Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (CouchBase, ElasticSearch, Redis), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ)
• Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
• Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization,
• Extremely proficient in modern mobile and server coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD.
• Experience in multiple front-end 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