Jobs at KAYAK

Develop and maintain Java backend features for KAYAK’s travel search and booking platforms. Responsibilities include implementing search and booking functionality, improving performance and user experience, and maintaining integrations with third-party travel APIs. The role requires collaboration with senior engineers and includes hybrid work from the Kaunas office at least three days per week.

Lead backend architecture for KAYAK for Business, maintaining high-performance search and booking systems, designing scalable third-party API integrations, and guiding multiple engineering squads. Improve observability, CI/CD, code quality, and distributed system standards while translating business objectives into technical specifications. Mentor engineers and communicate architectural trade-offs to leadership. The role requires strong Java and Spring expertise, high-throughput data experience, B2B identity integration knowledge, and on-site work in Vilnius at least three days weekly.

Design, build, test, and maintain reliable Java software, APIs, and services supporting KAYAK’s travel search and AI-assisted experiences. Investigate production issues, improve performance and observability, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product and design teams. Contribute to conversational travel planning, smart filters, AI-generated summaries, and other high-volume consumer features while improving accessibility, reliability, and maintainability.

Design, build, test, and maintain reliable Java software for KAYAK’s travel search and AI-assisted planning experiences. Develop APIs and services, investigate technical issues, improve performance and observability, participate in code reviews, collaborate with product and design teams, and support production releases. Work on AI features such as conversational travel planning, smart filters, hotel review summaries, and personalized search.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and production support of complex backend systems for KAYAK’s advertising platform. Responsibilities include architecture discussions, writing and reviewing Java code, mentoring engineers, optimizing performance, resolving production issues, collaborating with product and business teams, and participating in agile delivery and on-call rotations.

Supports the executive team by managing complex calendars, coordinating leadership meetings and offsites, preparing presentations and briefing materials, handling correspondence, tracking action items, managing administrative details, and protecting confidential information. The role requires strong organization, communication, discretion, proactive problem-solving, and proficiency with calendar and productivity tools. It is hybrid, requiring work from the Norwalk, Connecticut office three days per week.

Lead global supplier relations for KAYAK for Business, managing preferred travel partners across air, rail, lodging, car rental, payments, and related services. Responsibilities include partnership growth, supplier evaluations, communications, contracting, commercial strategy, customer and internal collaboration, technology prioritization, budgeting, forecasting, and revenue reconciliation. The role requires strong travel-industry expertise, negotiation, analytics, communication, business development, and global-team experience.

Leads global supplier relations for KAYAK for Business, managing preferred travel partners across air, lodging, rail, car rental, payment, expense, and related services. Responsibilities include partnership growth, supplier evaluations, contracting, negotiations, communications, commercial strategy, content and functionality alignment, technology prioritization, budgeting, forecasting, and revenue reconciliation. The role collaborates closely with business development, account management, product, marketing, finance, customers, and global partners.

Build and operate scalable, reliable data pipelines and models supporting billing, reporting, and analytics. The role involves Python and SQL development, workflow orchestration, performance optimization, automated data quality monitoring, self-service tooling, and troubleshooting. The engineer will partner with teams to translate business needs into maintainable technical solutions and contribute to engineering excellence through testing, containerization, and AI-assisted coding tools.

Lead the Kubernetes platform team responsible for reliability, scalability, security, lifecycle management, observability, and operational excellence across global production and non-production environments. Own the technical roadmap, guide platform engineers, manage hiring and development, drive infrastructure-as-code and GitOps adoption, improve incident response, and partner with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams on platform standards and cluster hardening.

Design, maintain, and scale backend search capabilities for KAYAK’s travel platform. Own complex technical solutions from design through operational support, lead architecture discussions, resolve production issues, improve reliability, reduce technical debt, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across commercial, data, and engineering teams while strengthening testing, observability, CI/CD, and development practices.

Manages a portfolio of US-based corporate accounts for KAYAK for Business, serving as the primary client contact. Responsibilities include driving platform adoption, monitoring account health, leading business reviews, managing renewals and amendments, identifying growth opportunities, coordinating internal teams and travel management partners, resolving issues, maintaining account records, and sharing client feedback to improve products and processes.

Own a portfolio of corporate travel clients across Europe and globally, driving retention, adoption, satisfaction, renewals, and long-term success. Build senior client relationships, negotiate contracts, lead governance reviews, identify risks and opportunities through data, and coordinate product, engineering, finance, support, and TMC partners. Manage escalations, invoicing, market rollouts, and product improvements while representing client needs internally. The role is London-based three days weekly and requires approximately 15–20% travel.

Manage a portfolio of corporate travel accounts as the primary client contact. Drive platform adoption, retention, satisfaction, renewals, account growth, and issue resolution. Lead account reviews, monitor account health, coordinate with Product, Support, Finance, Implementation, and travel management partners, and maintain accurate account records. Provide client feedback internally and contribute to scalable team processes, playbooks, and templates.

Supports Compliance & Ethics, Financial Crime Risk Management, sanctions, third-party due diligence, regulatory monitoring, risk assessments, audits, training, and compliance reporting. The role identifies and escalates compliance risks, maintains policies and knowledge resources, coordinates disclosures and screening, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. It also helps improve compliance workflows through approved AI and automation tools while maintaining human review, data protection, and auditability.

Design, implement, test, and maintain production software for KAYAK’s travel search and trip-planning products. Build APIs and services supporting AI-assisted search, conversational planning, itineraries, and related experiences. Investigate technical issues, improve reliability and performance, participate in code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to observability, development tooling, and delivery practices.

Own the global roadmap, prioritization, adoption, and success of KAYAK’s experimentation platform. Define product direction, translate user needs into requirements, partner with Engineering, Data, and Product teams, establish success metrics, and improve experiment setup, execution, monitoring, analysis, and decision-making workflows. The role requires strong experimentation methodology knowledge, technical product management experience, analytical ability, SQL skills, and effective cross-functional leadership.

Senior Product Designer responsible for shaping corporate travel shopping experiences across web and mobile. The role involves end-to-end product design, user research, prototyping, usability testing, accessibility, design systems, stakeholder alignment, and collaboration with product managers and engineers. The designer will influence product strategy, translate customer insights into solutions, and deliver scalable experiences within an agile development environment.

Lead KAYAK’s global security engineering team and execute its cybersecurity strategy and operating model. Oversee security operations, incident response, threat detection, vulnerability management, endpoint security, IAM, and application security. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to embed security into systems, manage vendors and budgets, develop metrics, support hiring and career growth, and evaluate AI-driven security automation. This hybrid role requires working from the Concord, Massachusetts office three days per week.

Lead end-to-end product design for web and mobile advertising experiences, from concepts and prototypes through delivery and iteration. Collaborate with product managers and engineers, conduct qualitative research, analyze experiments and analytics, communicate design rationale, contribute to shared design systems, and provide feedback to other designers. The role primarily supports Ads while potentially spanning SEO, Affiliates, and B2B dashboards.