Senior JAVA Software Engineer

KAYAK part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is a leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms we help people find their perfect flight stay rental car and vacation package. Were also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo Cheapflights and HotelsCombined among others. From start-up to industry leader innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Were hiring Java Backend Engineers to help improve and maintain KAYAKs search and booking systems. If you care about travel and building helpful reliable user experiences wed love to hear from you.

This role will be required to work from our Cambridge/Concord MA office at least 3 days per week.

In this role you will:

• Build and maintain backend features for the Stays team (search booking integrations).

• Improve performance reliability and user experience of existing systems.

• Integrate and maintain connections with internal and third-party APIs.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers product design and QA to deliver features

Please apply if you have:

• Strong Java development skills.

• Experience designing APIs and backend services.

• Experience building high-performance scalable services.

• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and web data formats/protocols (HTTP XML JSON).

• Practical experience with APIs (design consumption or integration).

• Clear communicator who works well on a team.

• Self-driven and able to move projects forward independently.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spring Git Redis Kafka or similar technologies.

• Experience working on search booking or high-throughput systems.

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year

• Flexible hours and ability to work from home 1 or 2 days per week

• Generous retirement plans

• Awesome health dental and vision insurance plans with flexible spending accounts

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth

  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace

  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)

  • No meeting Fridays

• Universal paid parental leave

• Generous paid vacation time off for your birthday

• Paid volunteer time

• Focus on your career growth:

  • Development Dollars

  • Leadership development

  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

• Travel Discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• Competitive retirement and health plans

• Free lunch 2 days per week

• Fun quarterly events such as boat trips arcades ski trips Thursday happy hours and more

Compensation

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range including but not limited to external market benchmark data geographic location and years of experience sought/required. The range for this Massachusetts based role is $00 not inclusive of annual bonus and recurring RSU grants.

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO paid sick leave medical leave bereavement leave floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits.

Inclusion

At KAYAK we want everyone to have the space to grow share ideas and do great work. Thats why were focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process or on the job were here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC