Jobs at KAYAK

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.

Leads the global finance systems strategy, NetSuite ecosystem, governance, integrations, and multi-year transformation roadmap. Oversees finance AI and automation initiatives, data foundations, budgets, enterprise architecture alignment, and cross-functional delivery. Recruits and develops finance systems talent while partnering with accounting, tax, treasury, FP&A, audit, engineering, and executive leadership to improve close cycles, controls, data integrity, and operational efficiency.

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.

Lead backend architecture and technical direction for KAYAK for Business. Design high-performance search, booking, and third-party API integration systems; ensure scalability, low latency, and availability; mentor engineers; improve observability, CI/CD, code quality, and distributed-system standards; and translate business objectives into technical specifications while communicating risks to leadership.

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 collaborates with senior engineers and requires hybrid work from the Vilnius office at least three days weekly.

Lead and mentor senior backend engineers and principals to modernize platform infrastructure. Own technical roadmap, drive Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption, improve CI/CD and observability, enforce engineering best practices, remove blockers, recruit talent, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity.

Lead mobile design direction across KAYAK apps, set UX/UI pattern system and quality standards, run discovery and planning for three teams, design and ship native iOS/Android solutions, evolve mobile design systems, and integrate mobile AI features while raising craft across designers.

The Senior Data Engineer at KAYAK will develop and monitor data pipelines, optimize performance, ensure data reliability, and create self-service tools, collaborating across teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Lead and mentor a senior backend platform team to modernize infrastructure, standardize Java architecture, improve deployment and CI/CD, drive observability, enforce engineering best practices, manage delivery and reliability, and recruit engineering talent to support the platform roadmap.

Build and maintain full-stack web features, dynamic landing pages, APIs, backend services, integrations, and personalized marketing experiences used by millions of travelers. Responsibilities include architectural decision-making, testing, code reviews, production troubleshooting, performance and reliability improvements, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers.

Build and operate scalable machine learning infrastructure, including CI/CD, model training, deployment, serving, feature stores, registries, monitoring, and drift detection. Enable Kubernetes autoscaling and GPU-backed production, establish observability and service-level objectives, improve platform reliability, and create standardized workflows that help data scientists move models from experimentation to production.

Build and evolve shared backend platform capabilities, Java frameworks, runtime systems, and deployment infrastructure. Improve CI/CD workflows, release quality, observability, reliability, and developer velocity across engineering teams. Contribute to initiatives including Kubernetes multi-cluster deployments, web gateways, faster pod startup, secure service communication, ephemeral test environments, and AI-driven observability. Collaborate with product engineering teams, participate in design reviews, and help establish scalable backend standards.

Develop and maintain Java backend features for KAYAK’s search and booking technology. Responsibilities include implementing search and booking functionality, improving performance and user experience, and maintaining third-party API integrations. The role requires collaboration with senior engineers and offers a hybrid schedule in the Kaunas office at least three days per week.

As a Staff Software Engineer at KAYAK, you will design scalable backend systems, lead engineering initiatives, and ensure performance for global clientele, mentoring teams along the way.

Lead visual ideation and art direction for multi-channel campaigns (OOH, social, short-form video). Own concepts from brief to execution, collaborate with copywriters and cross-functional teams, present ideas to stakeholders, and use AI tools for rapid concepting and visual exploration.

Develop original, format-specific campaign concepts and write hooks, headlines, scripts and briefs across OOH, social and short-form video. Collaborate with designers, editors and cross-functional teams to execute assets, champion AI tools in ideation, and adapt copy for channel and audience while presenting and defending creative work.

Lead a Berlin-based data platform team to own roadmap, architecture, and reliability for ingestion, storage, orchestration, and lakehouse foundations. Build schema registry, data contracts, observability, metadata, and governance; drive modernization, enforce retention and platform controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams for analytics, ML, and reporting.