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Software Engineer

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KAYAK

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Location:
United States, Cambridge

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Employment contract

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Salary:

Not provided

Job Description:

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings, is the world’s leading travel search engine. This role involves building and supporting the company’s advertising platform, including APIs, data systems, dashboards, and reporting tools. The position is focused on AdTech development using tools like MySQL, Redis, and Aerospike.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design, develop, and maintain efficient solutions for our AdTech applications, including ad targeting and content management
  • Collaborate with colleagues from engineering, product, data science, and design to create software that meets the needs of our users
  • Work with various data storage systems like MySQL, Memcache, Aerospike, Trino, Redis, and more
  • Build and improve algorithms to enhance ad targeting and increase value for our partners
  • Write tests at multiple levels (unit, integration, API, end-to-end) to ensure quality and reliability
  • Share knowledge with teammates through code reviews and collaborative learning
  • Identify and solve complex technical challenges related to software performance and scalability

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience with Java programming
  • Strong understanding of programming fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and software design
  • Ability to work independently and with a team
  • Good communication skills for sharing ideas clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues
  • Familiarity with relational databases like MySQL or Oracle
  • Experience or interest in working with Aerospike, Trino or Redis is a plus

Nice to have:

Experience or interest in working with Aerospike, Trino or Redis

What we offer:
  • Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
  • Company-wide week off a year
  • No meeting Fridays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Development Dollars
  • Leadership development
  • Access to thousands 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 socials, and more

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 09, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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