4 hours ago
Base Salary
$125k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable production software for KAYAK travel-search and trip-planning experiences.
- Build and evolve APIs and services supporting AI-assisted search, conversational travel planning, itineraries, and related user experiences.
- Investigate technical problems, assess trade-offs, and improve reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Write automated tests and contribute to unit, integration, and end-to-end quality.
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver useful and accessible user experiences.
- Contribute to ASK AI, smart filters, AI-generated hotel review summaries, Explore, and related search features.
- Monitor and improve production behavior through debugging, observability, and root-cause analysis.
- Contribute to development tools, engineering processes, and delivery practices.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining production software.
- Proficiency in Java or another relevant programming language.
- Familiarity with APIs, data structures, and software-design principles.
- Experience testing software and investigating defects or production issues.
- Ability to explain technical decisions clearly in writing and conversation.
- Ability to take ownership while seeking input or support when needed.
- Experience contributing to projects from design through implementation, release, and maintenance.
- Equivalent practical experience is accepted in place of a specific degree or educational path.
- Preferred experience includes distributed systems, search, personalization, high-volume consumer products, AI, machine learning, large language model applications, relational databases, web or mobile products, accessibility, reliability, usability, Java, Spring, cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
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 on-demand e-learning courses.
- Travel discounts and Employee Resource Groups.
- Six weeks of paid vacation plus 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.
- The role requires commuting to the Concord, MA office three times per week.
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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.