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This is the most senior backend seat Agoda has open in Gurugram, one level above the Staff role also in today's edition. You own critical systems end to end, drive technical direction and lead large initiatives, combining architecture, execution and technical leadership across a global travel platform. The scope reaches past your own team: you influence engineering decisions organisation wide, mentor engineers, shape development practices and help raise the technical bar. Crucially the posting states that recent and ongoing hands-on coding experience in production is required, so this is not an architecture role that has left the code behind. The domains are inventory, pricing, booking and payments on Scala, Go, Java and Kotlin with Kafka and Aerospike. Who it is for: Requirements. 11+ years of experience building and operating large scale backend systems in production environments. Recent and ongoing hands-on coding experience in production environments is required, stated explicitly. Experience with cloud native architectures on AWS or GCP. What you would 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 practice across teams. Lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple services, teams and stakeholders. Make key technical decisions, balancing business priorities against scalability, reliability and maintainability. Remain an active hands-on contributor. Influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate team, mentor engineers, shape development practices and help raise the organisation's technical bar. Is this a management role No reporting line, hiring or performance review responsibility appears anywhere in the posting, and the hands-on coding requirement is stated as a requirement rather than a preference. We have published it as a senior individual contributor seat on that basis. The word "Lead" in the title is a level marker at Agoda (Level 5), not a people management signal. Visa. Agoda records "Visa sponsored: False" and the title says Gurugram based. The team and stack. Mission critical domains across inventory, pricing, booking, payments and the customer and partner platforms, on Scala, Go, Java and Kotlin with Kafka and Aerospike, shipping dozens of releases a day. Who this is for. A backend engineer with eleven or more years who wants architectural ownership without leaving the code. If you want the same work one level down, Agoda's Level 4 Staff seat is in this same edition at 8 to 12 years. .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.