Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania · Hybrid
$6k–$7k/mo
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. We're als…
Skills: Engineering Management, Supplier Integrations, Distributed Systems, API Design, Backend Architecture
Berlin, Germany · Hybrid
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. We're als…
Skills: Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, Travel Domain Knowledge, GDS Platforms, API Integration
Miami, Florida, United States · Hybrid
$190k–$220k/yr
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. We’re als…
Skills: Brand Strategy, Full-Funnel Marketing, Budget Management, Integrated Campaign Leadership, Audience Segmentation
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid
$200k–$230k/yr
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. We’re als…
Skills: Brand Strategy, Full-funnel Marketing, Budget Management, Integrated Campaign Leadership, Audience Segmentation
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States · Hybrid
$200k–$230k/yr
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. We’re als…
Skills: Brand Strategy, Full-funnel Marketing, Budget Management, Integrated Campaign Leadership, Audience Segmentation
Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany · Remote OK
Do you have a strong passion for travel, language, and quality? We are looking for a freelance German Localization Tester to help ensure our products and content, primarily for KAYAK, feel accurate, natural, and cultural…
Skills: German Proficiency, English Proficiency, Website Testing, App Testing, Localization Testing
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid
$75k–$85k/yr
KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package.…
Skills: Account Management, Business Development, Commercial Partnerships, Data Analysis, Negotiation
Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany · Remote OK
Do you have a strong passion for travel, language, and quality? We are looking for a freelance European Spanish Localization Tester to help ensure our products and content, primarily for KAYAK, feel accurate, natural, an…
Skills: European Spanish Proficiency, English Proficiency, Website Testing, App Testing, Localization Quality Assurance
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark · Hybrid
KAYAK/momondo, 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. W…
Skills: Product Management, SEM Marketing, A/B Testing, Conversion Rate Optimization, SQL
Berlin, Germany · Hybrid
KAYAK/momondo, 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. W…
Skills: Product Management, SEM Marketing, A/B Testing, Conversion Rate Optimization, SQL
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid
$130k–$150k/yr
Product Manager, CRM (Cambridge/Concord) 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, r…
Skills: Product Management, CRM Strategy, Lifecycle Marketing, Agile Methodology, SQL
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania · Hybrid
$6k–$7k/mo
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. We’re als…
Skills: Backend Engineering, People Management, Distributed Systems, Service Architecture, API Design
London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package.…
Skills: Finance Transformation, NetSuite ERP, AI Strategy, Product Management, Stakeholder Management
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States · Hybrid
$200k–$220k/yr
KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package.…
Skills: Finance Transformation, NetSuite ERP, AI Strategy, Product Management, Stakeholder Management
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland · Remote OK
KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package.…
Skills: Finance Transformation, NetSuite ERP, AI Strategy, Product Management, Stakeholder Management
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania · Hybrid
$7k–$8k/mo
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. We’re als…
Skills: Backend Development, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, Service Architecture, Kubernetes
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania · Hybrid
$6k–$7k/mo
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. We’re als…
Skills: Backend Software Development, Distributed Systems, Service Architecture, Java, Kubernetes
Concord, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$105k/yr
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. We're als…
Skills: Linux Systems Administration, Bash Scripting, Python, Datacenter Operations, Monitoring and Observability
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid
$110k–$120k/yr
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. We're als…
Skills: Java, SQL, RESTful APIs, MySQL, Backend Development
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid
$100k–$110k/yr
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. We're als…
Skills: Marketing Analytics, Brand Strategy, SQL, Excel, Python
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Lead agile engineering teams to deliver high-quality software for corporate travel solutions while defining the technical roadmap. Manage the full employee lifecycle, including hiring, coaching, and performance management for software engineers.
Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in leadership, including specific experience with travel industry supplier integrations. Must possess strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems and a proven track record of managing engineering talent.
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. We're 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, we're building the future of corporate travel technology — and the engineering teams behind it are at the heart of that mission. As an Engineering Manager, you'll 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.
Own end-to-end delivery for one or more agile engineering teams, ensuring the team consistently ships high-quality software aligned with product and business objectives, measured against clear KPIs.
Define and drive the technical roadmap for your team's domain — collaborating with product managers and peer engineering leaders to translate business goals into a prioritized, executable plan.
Design and enforce engineering best practices across the team's codebase, including coding standards, testing strategies, observability, and clear Definition of Done criteria, raising the overall quality bar.
Lead hiring and performance management for a team of software engineers, owning the full employee lifecycle from sourcing and onboarding through career development, performance reviews, and promotions.
Coach and develop engineers at all levels — including senior engineers and emerging technical leads — through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, and deliberate career conversations that build the next generation of leaders.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and peer engineering managers to plan and deliver complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring clear alignment on scope, dependencies, and timelines.
Identify and remove delivery risks proactively — whether organizational, technical, or process-related — and drive improvements without waiting to be directed, keeping the team operating at high velocity.
Champion a culture of quality and continuous improvement, embedding practices such as blameless post-mortems, structured incident response, and iterative process refinement into the team's day-to-day rhythm.
Influence technical architecture across the team's domain by preparing and participating in design reviews, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring systems are built for scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Help build and shape the engineering presence, contributing to local talent acquisition, onboarding, and team culture as part of the organization's strategic expansion of its engineering hub.
1+ years of experience leading engineering teams within the travel industry focused on supplier integrations (such as flights, hotels, or trains using Direct APIs, GDS, NDC, NDC[X]) or managing teams executing large-scale third-party content integrations.
8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 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.
A proven track record of ownership and innovation within a data-driven, results-oriented environment, along with the ability to rapidly learn and master new business domains.
A track record of 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 — hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotions — with a genuine commitment to developing engineering talent.
Experience coaching and developing engineers at multiple levels, including senior engineers and emerging technical leads, 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.
Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
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 distributed, multilingual engineering organization with teams across multiple time zones and office locations.
A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; no specific certification is required.
Salary consists of three elements:
Base pay: from 6000 EUR up to 7080 EUR gross monthly.
In addition:
Significant yearly bonuses, approx 15% percent of annual salary.
Booking Holdings RSU (Restricted Stock Units) package, worth 50,000 USD gross, with possibility to receive yearly refreshes.
Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
Funds for your career growth
Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Generous additional Health Insurance
Flexible sick time off
Additional financial support for your sick leave
Additional day off on your birthday
Company-wide vacation week once a year (winter holidays)
Additional financial support during parental leave
Free lunch twice a week and daily snacks at the office
Paid volunteering time
No meeting Fridays
Office and team events such as summer camp, KAYAK birthday, winter party and more!
Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
Internal Communities
At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re 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. We’ve got you.
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We are a leading travel search engine.
At KAYAK, we help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. We are a leading travel search engine. KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. And because we aim to help travelers explore the world more confidently, we’re always on the lookout for ways to make travel planning and trip management easier – offering up a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK Trips, Explore, Price Forecast and our constantly evolving app and A.I. innovations. KAYAK is part of a global network that includes our sister brand OpenTable, as well as a portfolio of travel metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Collectively, we’re uniquely equipped to help people experience the world through travel and dining. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories. KAYAK will never request payment(s) from its candidates for open positions. If you have ever been contacted about a job at KAYAK by phone/Whatsapp or email, and have been asked to provide a Credit Card, wire transfer or crypto payment, please be aware that KAYAK is not associated with this outreach. If you receive a suspicious request regarding a career opportunity at KAYAK, please report it to us. To find out more, visit KAYAK.com.
Offices: 1266 E Main St, 700R, Stamford, Connecticut 06902, US · Brastos St. 15, Kaunas, Trakai LT-47183, LT · 300 Baker Ave Ext, Concord, MA 01742, US · Fraumünsterstrasse 16, Zurich, 8001, CH · Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, Berlin, 10243, DE
We are a leading travel search engine.
At KAYAK, we help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. We are a leading travel search engine. KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. And because we aim to help travelers explore the world more confidently, we’re always on the lookout for ways to make travel planning and trip management easier – offering up a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK Trips, Explore, Price Forecast and our constantly evolving app and A.I. innovations. KAYAK is part of a global network that includes our sister brand OpenTable, as well as a portfolio of travel metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Collectively, we’re uniquely equipped to help people experience the world through travel and dining. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories. KAYAK will never request payment(s) from its candidates for open positions. If you have ever been contacted about a job at KAYAK by phone/Whatsapp or email, and have been asked to provide a Credit Card, wire transfer or crypto payment, please be aware that KAYAK is not associated with this outreach. If you receive a suspicious request regarding a career opportunity at KAYAK, please report it to us. To find out more, visit KAYAK.com.
Offices: 1266 E Main St, 700R, Stamford, Connecticut 06902, US · Brastos St. 15, Kaunas, Trakai LT-47183, LT · 300 Baker Ave Ext, Concord, MA 01742, US · Fraumünsterstrasse 16, Zurich, 8001, CH · Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, Berlin, 10243, DE
