2 days ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Optimize search and booking logic for global corporate clients.
- Build and maintain high-performance integrations with third-party airline, hotel, and rental-car APIs.
- Own software designs from initial concept through deployment while maintaining code quality and performance.
- Participate in code reviews and architectural steering for a modular, reusable K4B platform.
- Work from the Berlin office at least three days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 6 years of experience with Java.
- Hands-on experience with Spring and Spring Boot.
- Working knowledge of relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Ability to design and implement engineering initiatives with minimal guidance.
- Travel-domain experience, including airline distribution, GDS such as Amadeus, Sabre, or Travelport, NDC, and booking or reservation integrations, is beneficial.
- B2B systems or identity/HR integration experience, including SCIM, SAML/OAuth, SSO, user provisioning/deprovisioning, Workday, Okta, or Active Directory, is beneficial.
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 each year, no-meeting Fridays, paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time.
- Development dollars, leadership development, and access to thousands of on-demand e-learning courses.
- Travel discounts, employee resource groups, six weeks of paid vacation, and a birthday day off.
- Free lunch two days per week, pension plan contributions, public transportation subsidies, and a bike leasing program.
- Monthly social events, Thursday happy hours, sports teams, and an office in Friedrichshain, Berlin.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the Berlin office.
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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.