Senior Frontend Software Engineer, KAYAK
$140-160k
3 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
Travel search engine
Be an early applicant
Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$140-160k
3 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for smart, ambitious, and hardworking developers with a passion for learning and delivering
- 4+ years of meaningful work experience building web applications
- Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in a quantitative/technical field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math)
- Deep experience building layouts using CSS and HTML
- Advanced understanding of JavaScript, ideally with some experience using a modern UI framework or library (we use React, but Angular and Vue.js experience counts)
- Knowledge of performance considerations, especially with respect to browsers
- Experience working in Java, C#, or a similar object-oriented language
- Experience leveraging AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar) to building high quality software solutions
- Ability to:
- Debug issues in a full-stack environment
- Work independently on solutions and designs with minimal oversight
- Produce scalable, high quality, and accurate work
- Estimate effort accurately and execute with pace
- Show good judgment in architecting software
- Use metrics to validate decision-making
- Owns communication to key stakeholders on assigned projects
- Easily relate technical subjects to non-technical audiences
- Demonstrate leadership across teams and business functions
- If you're an engineer who loves traveling, and wants to help shape the future of the travel meta, we'd love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- Join KAYAK to build the travel tools that our users dream of, and develop your own ideas during our Hack Weeks
- Be the first to play with new and innovative travel features (while getting paid for it)
- You will join our Full Stack KAYAK4Business team in Massachusetts, responsible for user experiences that are the face of KAYAK for millions of users every day
- You will work closely with other teams, developing innovative features to make shopping for travel simple
- Work on K4B product features used by millions of corporate travelers
- Have end-to-end ownership of the UI, including testing, monitoring and troubleshooting
- Make architectural decisions and build prototypes
- Review and scope feature requests
- Drive technical debt reduction, oversee code quality, and pair with other developers
- Refactor and optimize existing code
- Work with geographically distributed teams
- Leverage modern AI tools & technologies to build excellent user interfaces
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business, and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services, but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
East Side of Stamford, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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