Senior Engineering Manager, K4B

About the role

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead one or more agile engineering teams. This role requires working from the Concord or Cambridge, MA office 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of software solutions that enhance the travel experience for companies and their travelers.
• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, ensuring they deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to shape the future of corporate travel technology.
• Steer organizational transformation, maximize gains from agile methodologies, and foster process optimization and innovation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5 years in an engineering leadership or management role.
• Proven track record of leading productive teams and shipping high-quality software in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience managing teams for 3+ years within B2B SaaS applications, focusing on successful onboarding of enterprise and SMB clients with measurable outcomes.
• Ownership and innovation within a data-driven, results-oriented environment, with the ability to rapidly learn and master new business domains.
• Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and backend service architecture, with the ability to credibly guide architectural decisions and participate meaningfully in design reviews.
• Demonstrated experience owning the full people management lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotions, with a strong track record of coaching and developing engineers at multiple levels through structured feedback, regular 1:1s, and deliberate career conversations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate a clear technical vision to both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across product, design, and engineering functions.
• Hands-on experience with modern software development tooling, including version control systems, issue tracking, and logging or observability platforms, and a demonstrated openness to adopting AI-assisted development tools to improve team productivity.
• Comfort working in a global engineering organization with teams across time zones and office locations.

Qualifications

• Education: A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

• Agile delivery methodologies and the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability practices.
• Communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Modern software development tooling.
• Global engineering organization experience.

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, company-paid 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.
• Career growth: 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 happy hours, and more.

Pay

The salary range for this Massachusetts based role is $190,000 - 235,000.00, not inclusive of annual bonus and recurring RSU grants. We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits.