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KAYAK Posted 8 days ago

Principal Software Architect

JavaMicroservicesSystem Design

The job in short

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KAYAK is hiring: “Principal Software Architect” (Lead level). Hybrid work, Vilnius. Salary: from 7 000 € per month gross, 37 % above the median for Backend (5 100 € gross). Technologies in the ad: Java, Microservices, System Design. The ad is in English and does not ask for Lithuanian. KAYAK currently has 11 open IT positions.

Salary

from 7 000 €/month

Gross/month · +17 % vs the Lead median

Level

Lead

Usually 7+ years. You lead a team or a technical direction: plan, align with the business and grow people.

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Work mode

Hybrid

Vilnius

What you will do

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What is expected

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Nice to have

  • Experience in the travel technology domain, including familiarity with booking flows, order management, or integrations with travel distribution systems.
  • Experience with B2B integration and identity standards, including service-to-service authentication and enterprise identity platforms.
  • Experience integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into production backend systems.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or asynchronous processing patterns.
  • Experience working in a service-oriented monorepo environment.

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Job description

The ad as published by the employer.

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.

KAYAK for Business is a corporate travel management platform that helps companies book, manage, and service business travel at scale - from search and policy enforcement through to booking, servicing, AI-powered automation, and enterprise integrations. We are looking for a Principal Software Architect to help define the long-term technical vision and architecture strategy for the entire KAYAK for Business engineering organisation. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad influence across multiple engineering teams, working at the intersection of distributed systems, external integrations, and AI-driven product experiences.

This role is required to work from our Kaunas or Vilnius office at least 3 days per week.

salary consists of three elements

  • Base pay: from 7000 EUR up to 10000 EUR gross monthly.

In addition

  • Significant yearly bonuses, approx 10 percent of annual salary.
  • Booking Holdings RSU (Restricted Stock Units) package, worth 40000 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.

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About the company

KAYAK

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KAYAK is hiring for 11 IT positions right now, mostly in Backend, Frontend, Data and AI.

Open roles
11

last 25 days

Salary median
3 350 €

IT median 4 050 € · -17 %

Remote or hybrid
73 %

remote 0 · hybrid 73 · office 27 %

Cities
Kaunas, Vilnius

Technologies in KAYAK's ads

JavaAICI/CDDistributed SystemsSQLAgileAPI DesignGitHub
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