Agoda - Senior Lead Software Engineer (Tax Solution), FinTech (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

Bangkok, Thailand1mo ago

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Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles, with a strong track record of designing and evolving complex production systems. • 10+ years • 3+ years of hands-on experience delivering tax-related technology projects across direct or indirect tax domains, or closely related finance technology domains, including building or evolving tax platforms. • 3+ years • Strong understanding of Tax technology domains such as VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. • Proven ability to shape technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains. • Strong hands-on engineering background, with deep understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for mission-critical systems, including high-volume transactional platforms at enterprise scale. • Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into clear technical models, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders. • Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority. • Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization. • Experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms that support multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models. • Deep experience with tax engines or tax automation platforms such as Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent custom-built solutions. • Experience with ERP systems, financial ledgers, invoicing, billing, reconciliation, or other finance platform integration points. • Familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, or middleware integration technologies • Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures. • Understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls. • Experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams. • Exposure to large-scale global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments. • #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi #NewYorkCity #Nigeria #London #Hyderabad #Pune #Mumbai #Colombia #Paris #Jakarta #Chennai #SanFrancisco #WashingtonDC #Toronto #Pakistan #LosAngeles #Dallas #Chicago #Kenya #Boston #Shanghai #Egypt #BuenosAires #Manila #Netherlands #Singapore #RiodeJaneiro #Beijing #Atlanta #Sydney #Madrid #Vietnam #SaudiArabia #Peru #Melbourne #Ireland #Russia #Bangladesh #MexicoCity #Philadelphia #Chile #SeattleArea #Noida #Kolkata #Guangdong #UnitedArabEmirates #TelAvivDistrict #Houston #KualaLumpur #BeloHorizonte #SouthKorea #Bangkok #Istanbul #Austin #Curitiba #Warsaw #Campinas #Barcelona #Ukraine #CostaRica #Berlin #Romania #Denver #Johannesburg #Minneapolis #Manchester #Miami #Phoenix #Detroit #Coimbatore #Milan #PortoAlegre #Vancouver #Montreal #Charlotte #SanDiego #Ghana #SaltLakeCity #Raleigh #HongKong #Munich #Prague #Ecuador #TampaBay #Tokyo #Serbia #Lithuania #Taipei #Cracow #Zhejiang #CapeTown #Brasilia #Columbus #Ahmedabad #Indore #Kochi #Gurgaon #Chandigarh #Lucknow #Bhubaneswar #Thiruvananthapuram #Visakhapatnam #Bhopal #JerseyCity #Irving #Denton #Worcester #Arlington #OverlandPark #AuroraDistrict #Baltimore #Tampa #Halethorpe #Dayton #Syracuse #Chonburi #ChiangMai #NakhonRatchasima #KhonKaen #HatYai #Phuket #Surabaya #Tangerang #Birmingham #Casablanca #Rabat #Camp #PetalingJaya #GeorgeTown • Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem, aligning Finance, regulatory, product, and engineering goals. • Own the architecture of mission-critical platforms and capabilities, ensuring they are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable to Agoda’s global scale, with the key starting focus being the Tax platform. • Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms where they create clear business and technical value. • Work hands-on with engineering teams on key technical decisions, system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components. • Lead architectural reviews and provide expert guidance on system design, integration patterns, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness. • Translate complex tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into clear technical models that engineering teams can build, evolve, and operate effectively. • Analyze Agoda’s current Tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks, duplication, inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities, and define practical transition paths toward the future state. • Establish and evolve architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices that improve quality without slowing delivery. • Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across Tax-related systems and adjacent FinTech platforms. • Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads, raising engineering fundamentals across design, code quality, testing, observability, and production ownership. • Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology. • Effectively utilize AI to achieve all the above, including contributions in building the solutions you helped design.