Software Development Engineer - BackEnd (Staff) | Gurugram, IND

Build systems that power millions of global travel experiences
Design and scale high-performance backend systems handling millions of requests daily across a global platform used by millions of travelers.

About our Team
At Agoda, our Backend Engineering team builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power a global travel platform serving millions of users daily. We own mission-critical domains across inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms.

Our systems run with high availability, low latency, and zero-downtime expectations, powered by modern technologies such as Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and Aerospike, along with strong foundations in CI/CD, automation, and observability.

We ship fast-often dozens of releases a day-and design systems that are resilient, self-healing, and built to scale globally.

The Opportunity
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will drive the design and development of scalable distributed systems, working on high-impact backend services.
You'll combine hands-on coding, system design, and technical leadership, contributing to complex systems and influencing engineering practices.

What You will Do

• Design and build scalable distributed systems and microservices
• Lead development of complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end
• Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices
• Own scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of services
• Optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Contribute to cross-team collaboration and system alignment
• Stay hands-on with coding and system design (50-60%)
• Mentor engineers and support overall team capability growth
• Participate in technical decision-making and architectural improvements
• Handle production issues, RCA, and continuous improvements

What We're Looking For

• 8-12 years of backend engineering experience
• Strong experience building distributed systems at scale
• Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go

Strong understanding of:

• Microservices architecture
• REST APIs & system design
• SQL/NoSQL databases
• Performance, scalability, and concurrency
• Strong coding + problem-solving ability
• Ability to contribute to technical decisions and mentor engineers

Nice to Have

• Experience building large-scale consumer or marketplace platforms
• Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike)
• Familiarity with cloud (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

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