Staff Software Engineer – BackEnd (Level 4) | Gurugram, IND

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 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’ll own the design and reliability of a critical service or domain end-to-end — from architecture through production. Beyond writing code, you’ll be expected to identify problems before they’re assigned to you, make independent calls on ambiguous technical trade-offs within your domain, and raise the technical bar for your immediate team. You’ll combine hands-on coding, system design, and technical ownership — accountable for outcomes within your service, and a trusted technical voice when your work touches adjacent teams.

Technical

8–12 years of backend engineering experience

Strong experience building and owning distributed systems at scale, within a service or domain

Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go

Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs & system design, SQL/NoSQL databases, and performance, scalability, and concurrency

Strong coding and problem-solving ability

Beyond the technical bar:

A track record of taking ownership beyond your assigned tasks — initiatives you drove within your domain because you saw the need, not because you were told

Comfort making decisions under ambiguity and owning the consequences, technical and business, within your area of ownership

Experience communicating trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, adjusting your framing accordingly

Demonstrated impact mentoring or growing engineers on your team, with concrete outcomes, not just informal help

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

Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife

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.