Lead Software Engineer | BackEnd (Gurugram based)

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. Lead and shape backend systems at scale for global travel experiencesDrive technical direction and deliver complex backend systems powering millions of users worldwide. About the TeamAt Agoda, our Backend Engineering organization builds high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power a global travel platform serving millions of users daily. Our systems span mission-critical domains including inventory, pricing, booking, payments, and customer/partner platforms. We operate with high availability, low latency, and zero-downtime expectations, leveraging technologies like Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and Aerospike, supported by strong practices in CI/CD, automation, and observability, and engineering excellence. We ship fast — with dozens of daily releases — and design systems that are resilient, scalable, and continuously evolving. The OpportunityAs a Lead Backend Engineer, you will own critical systems end-to-end, drive technical direction, and lead large initiatives. You will combine architecture, execution, and technical leadership to build scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions that power Agoda's global platform. You will influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate team, mentor engineers, shape development practices, and help raise the organization’s technical bar. What You’ll Do • Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex distributed systems at scale. • Own the technical direction, delivery, and evolution of critical systems and platforms. • Drive system design, API standards, software architecture, and engineering best practices across teams. • Lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple services, teams, and stakeholders. • Make key technical decisions, balancing business priorities with scalability, reliability, and maintainability goals. • Remain an active contributor to production systems through regular coding, code reviews, system design, and technical problem-solving, balancing hands-on execution with leadership