Frontend Software Engineer

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s 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.

Trade your daily grind for a career that lets you show off your passion for travel. 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 exciting travel features (while getting paid for it)!

You are an ambitious, and hardworking developer with a passion for learning and delivering. You will be responsible for developing compelling user experiences for millions of prospective travelers every day. As a catalyst for complex projects and initiatives, you will work closely with other teams to develop innovative features and keep our product ahead of the competition. If you’re an engineer who enjoys travel and wants to be a part of a team of diverse, collaborative, and driven individuals, we’d love to hear from you.

This role is required to work at least 3 days a week from our Cambridge or Concord, MA office.

In this role you will:

• Work on Hotels product features used by millions of people
• 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

Please apply if you have:

• 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
• A proven understanding of JavaScript, ideally with some experience using a modern UI framework or library (we use React, but Angular and Vue.js experience counts)
• Exposure working in Java, C#, or a similar object-oriented language
• Ability to…
  • Debug issues in a full-stack environment
  • Produce high quality and accurate work
  • Estimate the effort of tasks accurately and implement with pace
  • Conduct basic data/performance analyses
  • Develop collaborative working relationships with direct and cross-functional team members
  • Demonstrate the ability to learn and grow from feedback

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Subscription to HeadSpace
  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
  • Development Dollars
  • Leadership development
  • Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Competitive retirement and health plans
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Fun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At OpenTable/KAYAK, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation(s).