Principal Software Engineer, Back End (Remote)

xpatjobs       |    Location:Manila , Metro Manila       |    Country:Philippines

About the JobNote: Agodas hybrid workplace includes a few select remote roles and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:In-office locations: Gurugram, India; Bangkok, Thailand. Remote location(s): Bangalore, India; Pune, India; Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Melbourne, Australia; Manila, Philippines Get to Know Our TeamIn Agodas Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, FinTech and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Spark, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether its building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, youll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team. The OpportunityYou might call yourself full stack or back end or you might consider yourself an authority in a certain field, but you have a keen interest in how the different systems work together.Wed love to hear from you if you are skilled in any of the technologies we work with (note we are not looking for you to have them all). We are interested in speaking to persons of any level from individuals just starting their IT careers to experts in their field, although this particular position is better suitable to veteran engineers, with expertise in certain technologies, and especially those that had lead projects, initiatives and/or teams. In This Role, Youll Get to Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code from business requirements, technology selection, coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing, to CI/CD and proper monitoringDesign, develop and maintain platforms across the back end areaImprove scalability, stability, and efficiency of our existing systemsWrite great code and help others write great codeCollaborate with other teams and departments What Youll Need to Succeed Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involvedData platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements Good understanding of algorithms and data structuresStrong coding abilityYou are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skillsExcellent verbal and written English communication skills Its Great If You Have Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologiesExperience building large-scale distributed productsfrom scratchCore engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, Gitlab CI/CD for Continuous Integration docker and kubernetes for deploymentsHands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchBase), Play framework, Akka library