Senior Engineering Manager, K4B

The role

You will lead one or more agile engineering teams delivering software for corporate travel technology. You will manage frontend and backend engineers to deliver onboarding, account management, and integration management solutions.

What you will do

• Lead a cross functional agile team with frontend and backend engineers
• Mentor a team by providing technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development support
• Own the team's technical roadmap
• Champion backend architecture decisions and lead design reviews
• Set and enforce engineering best practices for coding, testing, code coverage, and deployment quality
• Manage day-to-day team operations by removing blockers and balancing the backlog
• Collaborate with engineering managers and cross-functional stakeholders
• Monitor team health and delivery metrics
• Champion agile practices and high impact engineering culture
• Recruit and onboard frontend/backend engineering talent

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 5 years in an engineering leadership or management role directly managing software engineers
• 3+ years managing teams within B2B SaaS applications
• Experience steering organizational transformation and maximizing agile methodologies
• Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and backend service architecture
• Experience owning the full people management lifecycle
• Solid understanding of agile delivery methodologies and the software development lifecycle
• Hands-on experience with modern software development tooling including GitHub, Jira, and logging or observability platforms
• Comfort working in a global engineering organization
• A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Demonstrated openness to adopting AI-assisted development tools

Benefits

• 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

About the company

KAYAK is a leading travel search engine and part of Booking Holdings. It operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined.