Senior Engineering Manager, K4B

KAYAK • Concord, MA

10d • $190,000 - $235,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross functional agile team with both frontend and backend engineers, delivering a world class onboarding solution for customers, account management and integration management together with a designer and a product owner
• Mentor a team by providing technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development support.
• Own the team’s technical roadmap, aligning priorities with engineering leadership to support the broader platform strategy.
• Champion backend architecture decisions by leading design reviews and collaborating with technical leaders across engineering.
• Set and enforce engineering best practices for coding, testing, code coverage, and deployment quality.
• Manage day-to-day team operations by removing blockers, balancing the backlog, and maintaining high standards for reliability and security.
• Collaborate with engineering managers from other teams and cross-functional stakeholders to resolve dependencies and support product teams across the company.
• Monitor team health and delivery metrics, identifying risks early and adjusting priorities as needed.
• Champion agile practices and high impact engineering culture within the team
• Recruit and onboard frontend/backend engineering talent to support the platform roadmap.

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off a year
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• 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
• 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)
• parental leave benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree