🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll serve as a principal technical authority within our backend engineering organization, ensuring the integrity of a high-concurrency travel search and booking platform. You'll provide technical vision and architectural governance for integrations with over 200 global travel partners and mentor senior engineering talent. This role offers the opportunity to shape enterprise-grade solutions for KAYAK for Business.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Optimize search and booking logic for global enterprise clients
• Lead design of high-performance integration frameworks for third-party APIs
• Consult multiple engineering squads on architectural trade-offs
• Spearhead initiatives to improve engineering lifecycle and code quality

📋 Requirements

• 9+ years of professional software development experience
• Expert-level mastery of Java ecosystem and Spring Framework
• Expertise in designing for high-throughput data environments with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis
• Understanding of NDC and legacy GDS (Amadeus, Sabre) protocols

✨ Nice to Have

• Knowledge of B2B integration patterns including SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, and SCIM
• Experience with AI/LLM

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
• 💰 Pension plan contributions
• 🏥 Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• 🍱 Free lunch 2 days per week
• 🚲 Bike leasing program