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 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.

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).