Overview:
We’re looking for an experienced Frontend Engineering Director to help us expand, scale and innovate our frontend development department.
Are you passionate about using technology to solve problems? Can your passion drive a team to develop lean, efficient code that serves as the frontend of our cutting edge product? Then we would like to hear from you!
As the Director of Frontend Development at Agoda you will lead and guide a team of 60-80 software engineers that work on our storefront, the Agoda website. With 5-8 direct reports, you will work closely together with your peers to improve the website on the areas of functionality, quality and performance. You provide strategic input and thought leadership whilst constantly evaluating, mentoring and coaching your department managers as well as overseeing recruitment incentives. Your mission is to help us make Agoda the best online travel website bar none.
For you to be successful, within six months you will have coached the department to have a thorough understanding of engineering best-practices in software development, evaluate decisions and technologies, think critically and closely adhere to Scrum methodologies. Your team will be putting technologies to the best of use for the interest of Agoda and to improve quality of the Agoda website.
In this role you will have the opportunity to be part of the largest online travel company, to be a meaningful contributor to our growth and strategic direction and to drive research and innovation and to make a step change in your career.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, guide and mentor multiple frontend engineering teams using Scrum
- Ensure our systems are scalable and can handle millions of daily visitors
- Ensure our systems are fault-tolerant and self-healing
- Drive engineering best-practices (unit testing, continuous delivery, etc.)
- Encourage and drive meaningful innovation
Some of the technologies that you will use on a daily basis:
- Frontend web technologies (HTML, CSS, SAS)
- JavaScript web technologies (jQuery, Angular.js, socket.IO)
- Frontend server side technologies (E.g.: C#, Python, Play framework)
- NoSQL database technologies (E.g.: Cassandra, Hadoop, Couchbase)
- Object Oriented Languages (E.g.: C#, Java, Scala)
- Continuous Integration (Jenkins)
- Performance and load testing