Senior Software Engineer, K4B
About The Position
KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings, is a leading travel search engine that helps people find flights, stays, rental cars, and vacation packages. They are also developing a corporate travel solution called KAYAK for Business. As an employee, you will be part of a global metasearch company with a focus on innovation and building the best travel search engine. This role specifically seeks a Senior Java Software Engineer to implement new features and maintain the platform, with a strong emphasis on working with data – parsing, analyzing, investigating, interpreting, modeling, and extracting knowledge from large volumes of data. The ideal candidate will have a passion for processing data to drive business decisions or develop new features in a fast-paced environment with diverse projects. This role requires working from the Concord, MA office at least 3 days per week.
Requirements
- +6-8 years of experience with Java programming
- Strong understanding of programming fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Good communication skills for sharing ideas clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues
- Experience with relational databases like MySQL or Oracle
- Unix shell scripting
- Spring & Mybatis frameworks
- DOM and using XPath, JQuery & CSS
- API development using REST, Web Service, SOAP, etc
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in the travel domain is beneficial
- Experience with B2B systems or identity/HR integrations is beneficial — e.g., SCIM, SAML/OAuth, SSO, user provisioning/deprovisioning, and connecting HRIS/IDP platforms (Workday, Okta, Active Directory) to product services.
- Machine Learning
Responsibilities
- Extract data from databases, write scripts to parse, clean, combine, and process them
- Communicate with APIs via REST or SOAP interfaces
- Configure enterprise applications for large customers
- Develop tools to assist in the debugging of existing products
- Build and maintain high-performance integrations with third-party APIs (airlines, hotel and rentalcars providers)
- Take full ownership of designs: from initial concept to deployment while maintaining high standards for code quality and performance
- Participate in code reviews and architectural steering to ensure the K4B project remains modular and reusable as KAYAK expands its enterprise footprint
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 thousand 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 socials, 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
