1 month ago
Base Salary
$110k - $125k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and provide production support for backend features.
- Participate in technical design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, sprint ceremonies, and delivery improvements.
- Write readable, maintainable, and well-tested code while improving performance and reducing technical debt.
- Participate in on-call rotations, monitor system health, investigate production issues, and document bugs.
- Collaborate with product managers, commercial partners, engineers, data scientists, and business intelligence teams.
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly and grow through mentorship, pairing, and feedback.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating backend systems through professional roles, internships, or substantial personal or academic projects.
- Working proficiency in Java or a comparable backend language.
- Foundational system-design and debugging knowledge, with comfort working in distributed or multi-service environments.
- Clear communication, reliable follow-through, early risk identification, and collaborative working habits.
- Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Curiosity, willingness to learn, and ability to challenge existing approaches with well-reasoned alternatives.
- Familiarity with ad tech, bidding logic, monetization infrastructure, server-to-server integrations, event-driven architectures, observability, metrics, or production debugging is helpful but not required.
- A specific degree is not required; equivalent experience, training, or transferable skills are considered.
Benefits
- Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth and a company-paid HeadSpace subscription.
- Company-wide week off, no-meeting Fridays, paid parental leave, vacation, birthday time off, and paid volunteer time.
- Development dollars, leadership development, and access to thousands of on-demand e-learning courses.
- Travel discounts, employee resource groups, competitive retirement and health plans, and free lunch two days per week.
- Quarterly company events and interview, application, and workplace adjustment support.
About KAYAK
KAYAK builds a travel metasearch platform that lets consumers compare flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages across hundreds of sites, plus tools for trip planning. It earns through referrals and advertising and offers KAYAK for Business for corporate travel. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings and operates a portfolio of brands including momondo, Cheapflights, and HotelsCombined.