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Software Development Engineer - BackEnd (Staff - Level 4) | Gurugram, IND

Agoda · Gurugram

Posted about 3 months ago · Previously reposted

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 days
Agoda's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
Yes
taken down and listed again at least once
Salary listed
No
3% of Agoda's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Agoda
high
280 stale, 33 reposted of 296 open
Hiring momentum
431 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Agoda's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Agoda.

About this role

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Agoda, you will design and own scalable distributed systems and microservices, ensuring their reliability and performance. Your role involves leading complex feature development, making architectural decisions, and mentoring team members while collaborating with stakeholders to align technical priorities with business needs. You will also be responsible for identifying risks and driving improvements within your domain.

Our read on this posting2.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Agoda as an employer.

What you need

  • 8–12 years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong experience building and owning distributed systems at scale, within a service or domain
  • Expertise in: Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go
  • Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs & system design, SQL/NoSQL databases, and performance, scalability, and concurrency
  • Strong coding and problem-solving ability
  • A track record of taking ownership beyond your assigned tasks

Nice to have

  • Experience building large-scale consumer or marketplace platforms
  • Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike)
  • Familiarity with cloud (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Fast-paced environment with dozens of releases a day
  • Expectations for high availability and low latency in systems
  • Requires strong ownership and decision-making under ambiguity

Summarised from Agoda's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Agoda on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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