{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8c5c4a760f56dc2d866b1d38","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8c5c4a760f56dc2d866b1d38","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8c5c4a760f56dc2d866b1d38","title":"Senior JAVA Software Engineer","description":"KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a 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.\nAs 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.\nWe’re hiring Java Backend Engineers to help improve and maintain KAYAK’s search and booking systems. If you care about travel and building helpful, reliable user experiences, we’d love to hear from you.\nThis role will be required to work from our Cambridge/Concord, MA office at least 3 days per week.\nIn this role, you will:\nBuild and maintain backend features for the Stays team (search, booking, integrations).\nImprove performance, reliability, and user experience of existing systems.\nIntegrate and maintain connections with internal and third-party APIs.\nCollaborate with frontend engineers, product, design, and QA to deliver features\nPlease apply if you have:\nStrong Java development skills.\nExperience designing APIs and backend services.\nExperience building high-performance, scalable services.\nFamiliarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and web data formats/protocols (HTTP, XML, JSON).\nPractical experience with APIs (design, consumption, or integration).\nClear communicator who works well on a team.\nSelf-driven and able to move projects forward independently.\nNice to have\nExperience with Spring, Git, Redis, Kafka, or similar technologies.\nExperience working on search, booking, or high-throughput systems.\n\nBenefits and Perks\nWork from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year\nFlexible hours and ability to work from home 1 or 2 days per week\nGenerous retirement plans\nAwesome health, dental and vision insurance plans with flexible spending accounts\nFocus on mental health and well-being:\nCompany-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth\nCompany-paid subscription to HeadSpace\nCompany-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)\nNo meeting Fridays\nUniversal paid parental leave\nGenerous paid vacation + time off for your birthday\nPaid volunteer time\nFocus on your career growth:\nDevelopment Dollars\nLeadership development\nAccess to thousands of on-demand e-learnings\nTravel Discounts\nEmployee Resource Groups\nCompetitive retirement and health plans\nFree lunch 2 days per week\nFun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more\nCompensation\nThere are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this Massachusetts based role is $125,000-165,000, not inclusive of annual bonus and recurring RSU grants.\nWe offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: 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); and parental leave benefits.\nInclusion\nAt KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.\nIf you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.\n#LI-MP1","company":"Kayak","rawCompany":"kayak","city":"Bedford","state":"MA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-12T19:04:46.365Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"561510","title":"Travel Agencies","slug":"travel-agencies"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior JAVA Software Engineer","description":"KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a 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.\nAs 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.\nWe’re hiring Java Backend Engineers to help improve and maintain KAYAK’s search and booking systems. 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