Staff Software Engineer - BackEnd (Level 4) | Gurugram, IND
About Agoda 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 TeamAt 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 OpportunityAs a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll drive the design and development of scalable distributed systems, working on high-impact backend services. Beyond writing code, you'll be expected to identify problems before they're assigned to you, make independent calls on ambiguous technical trade-offs, and influence how your team and adjacent teams build software. You'll combine hands-on coding, system design, and technical leadership — owning outcomes, not just deliverables, and helping shape engineering practices beyond your immediate scope. 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 Proactively identify gaps, risks, or improvement opportunities beyond your assigned scope, and drive them to resolution without waiting to be asked Make independent architectural and technical trade-off decisions, and be accountable for the outcomes Contribute to cross-team collaboration and system alignment; influence engineering standards and practices beyond your immediate team Partner with 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 with a structured approach, supporting overall...