Senior Java Software Engineer, Platform Team

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.

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.

The Role

Our Backend Platform team builds and maintains the core infrastructure, frameworks, and runtime systems that every engineering team at KAYAK relies on. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Kaunas and help evolve these shared foundations — improving how we deploy, observe, and scale our services so that product teams across the company can ship faster and more safely. You'll collaborate closely with teammates on technical decisions, contribute to meaningful platform improvements, and grow alongside a supportive group of experienced engineers.

This role requires working from our Kaunas office at least 3 days per week.

Salary consists of three elements

• Base pay: from 3330 EUR up to 6660 EUR gross monthly.

In addition

• Significant yearly bonuses, approx 10 percent of annual salary.
• Booking Holdings RSU (Restricted Stock Units) package, worth 20000 USD gross, with possibility to receive yearly refreshes.

At 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.