Senior Engineering Manager, K4B

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.

At KAYAK for Business were building the future of corporate travel technology and the engineering teams behind it are at the heart of that mission. As a Senior Engineering Manager youll lead one or more agile engineering teams delivering software that helps companies and their travelers move smarter and with less friction while playing a key role in shaping our growing engineering hub!

Note this position is required to work from our Concord or Cambridge MA office 3 days per week.

Please apply if you have:

• 10 years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership or management role directly managing software engineers and a proven track record of leading productive teams and shipping high-quality software in a fast-paced environment; equivalent experience training or transferable skills considered.

• Proven track record of managing teams for 3 years within B2B SaaS applications focusing on successfully onboarding enterprise and SMB clients with measurable outcomes.

• Ownership and innovation within a data-driven results-oriented environment along with the ability to rapidly learn and master new business domains.

• Experience steering organizational transformation maximizing gains from agile methodologies and fostering process optimization and innovation

• Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems API design and backend service architecture with the ability to credibly guide architectural decisions and participate meaningfully in design reviews.

• Demonstrated experience owning the full people management lifecycle including hiring onboarding performance management career development and promotions with a strong track record of coaching and developing engineers at multiple levels through structured feedback regular 1:1s and deliberate career conversations.

• Solid understanding of agile delivery methodologies and the software development lifecycle including CI/CD pipelines automated testing and observability practices; comfortable driving process improvements within a sprint-based team.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to articulate a clear technical vision to both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across product design and engineering functions.

• Hands-on experience with modern software development tooling including version control systems (e.g. GitHub) issue tracking (e.g. Jira) and logging or observability platforms and a demonstrated openness to adopting AI-assisted development tools to improve team productivity.

• Comfort working in a global engineering organization with teams across time zones and office locations.

• A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience; no specific certification is required.

Benefits and Perks

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

• 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

• 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

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 $190000 - 235000.00 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.

Need any adjustments for the interview application or on the job No problem just give us a heads-up. Weve got you.

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Required Experience:

Manager