Agoda: Software Development Engineer - BackEnd (Staff - Level 4) | Gurugram, IND — Gurugram

About Agoda

Agoda operates an online travel booking platform. Travellers use its website and applications to book hotel rooms, holiday homes, flights and activities, with a strong focus on accommodation options across Asia and other regions. The company is headquartered in Singapore and is part of the Booking Holdings group, and its employer feed lists technology and customer-facing roles for the platform.

The position and its setting

Agoda lists Software Development Engineer - BackEnd (Staff - Level 4) | Gurugram, IND in Gurugram, under reference 8035213. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Information Technology
• Employer listing date: 29 June 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Design, build, and own scalable distributed systems and microservices within your domain
• Leadership: development of complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end, within your service or team
• Drive system design, API design, and engineering best practices for your team
• Own scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of the services you're responsible for
• Optimize high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Proactively identify gaps, risks, or improvement opportunities in your domain, and drive them to resolution without waiting to be asked
• Make independent architectural and technical trade-off decisions within your service's scope, and be accountable for the outcomes
• Collaboration: with adjacent teams when your service's boundaries or dependencies require it, and raise engineering standards within your own team
• Partner with your product and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical priorities, and technical constraints into business context
• Stay hands-on with coding and system design
• Mentor engineers on your team with a structured approach, supporting their growth
• Handle production issues within your domain, drive RCA, and lead follow-through improvements

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Technical
• 8–12 years of backend engineering experience
• Experience building and owning distributed systems at scale, within a service or domain
• Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go
• Understanding: microservices architecture, REST APIs & system design, SQL/NoSQL databases, and performance, scalability, and concurrency
• 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

Preferred experience and additional strengths

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

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Gurugram

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Agoda

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Agoda posting below and match the title and reference 8035213.

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Practical preparation: Java

For Java experience, describe the application or service you worked on, its purpose and your own contribution. A useful example connects language knowledge to an actual engineering decision, such as an interface design, a performance issue or a production defect.

Relevant skills

• Java
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Kafka
• CI/CD
• AWS
• GCP
• REST APIs
• APIs
• Google Cloud
• recruitment
• inventory
• stakeholder management