Staff JAVA Engineer (Fixed term) at KAYAK
Job Description
📋 Description
- Optimize search and booking logic for global corporate clients
- Build and maintain high-performance integrations with airline, hotel and rentalcar APIs
- Own designs from concept to deployment with high standards for quality and performance
- Participate in code reviews and architecture to keep KAYAK's K4B modular and reusable
🎯 Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 7+ years of Java experience
- Spring/Spring Boot + SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis)
- Strong English communication skills
- Ability to design and implement initiatives with minimal guidance
- Travel domain familiarity: GDS (Amadeus/Sabre/Travelport) and NDC
- Experience with B2B/identity HR integrations (SCIM, SAML/OAuth, SSO, HRIS/IDP like Workday/Okta)
🎁 Benefits
- Work from almost anywhere up to 20 days/year
- Mental health: therapy through SpringHealth and HeadSpace
- No meeting Fridays
- Paid parental leave
- Generous vacation and birthday time off
- Travel discounts and employee resource groups
