Java Search Engineer, Hotels

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. 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 Hotels Combined, 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.

We are looking for Java backend developers to help improve and maintain KAYAK’s world leading search and booking technology.

Are you passionate about travel and building outstanding user experiences? Then join us at KAYAK and help shape the future of travel!

This role will be required to work from our Concord office at least 3 days per week.

In this role, you will:

• Implement new backend search and booking features for Hotel Search Team
• Improve existing features with an eye towards speed and user experience
• Build and maintain existing integrations with third-party APIs

Please apply if you are:

• A proven software engineer with backend experience
• Comfortable in a fast-paced agile environment
• Hands on and self-motivated
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with high performance and scalable Java implementation
• Experience with MySQL, HTTP, XML, JSON
• Working knowledge on APIs
• Bonus Points - Spring, Git, Redis, Kafka

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
  • No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
  • 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 happy hours, and more

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At KAYAK, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation(s).