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Salary: USD 190,000 - 235,000 / annual
KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams building KAYAK for Business (K4B), a corporate travel technology platform. You will manage one or more agile engineering teams focused on sustaining and operational quality, directly responsible for team delivery, technical strategy, and people development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading cross-functional agile teams and mentoring engineers through technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development
- Owning the team's technical roadmap and aligning priorities with engineering leadership
- Championing backend architecture decisions through design reviews and collaboration with technical leaders
- Setting and enforcing engineering best practices for coding, testing, code coverage, and deployment quality
- Managing day-to-day operations: removing blockers, balancing backlogs, maintaining reliability and security standards
- Collaborating with peer engineering managers and cross-functional stakeholders to resolve dependencies
- Ensuring business unit-wide quality standards, processes, and SLAs
- Managing high-impact incident remediation and operational tool development with AI-enabled technologies
- Monitoring team health and delivery metrics, identifying risks early
- Recruiting and onboarding frontend and backend engineering talent
- Driving agile practices and high-impact engineering culture
The role is based in Concord, MA with flexibility to work remotely up to 20 days per year. You'll be part of a global engineering organization with teams across multiple time zones.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership or management role directly managing software engineers; proven track record of leading productive teams and shipping high-quality software in fast-paced environments
- 3+ years managing teams within B2B SaaS applications, with focus on quality operations, enterprise maintenance, system sustainability, and meeting contractual SLAs
- Demonstrated experience with quality process design and building quality-first culture
- Experience overseeing cross-functional teams (quality engineers, QA specialists, frontend/backend engineers)
- Proven ownership and innovation in data-driven, results-oriented environments with ability to rapidly learn new business domains
- Experience steering organizational transformation, maximizing agile methodologies, and fostering process optimization
- Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and backend service architecture; ability to credibly guide architectural decisions and participate in design reviews
- Full people management lifecycle experience: hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, promotions; strong track record of coaching engineers at multiple levels through structured feedback and career conversations
- Solid understanding of agile delivery methodologies, SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability practices
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to articulate technical vision to technical and non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience with modern development tooling: version control (GitHub), issue tracking (Jira), logging/observability platforms; openness to AI-assisted development tools
- Comfort working in global engineering organization with teams across multiple time zones and office locations
- Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
