Engineering Manager, K4B

About the role

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings, is a travel search engine and is building a corporate travel solution called KAYAK for Business. As Engineering Manager you will lead one or more agile engineering teams delivering software for the K4B business, play a key role in shaping the growing engineering hub, and work from the Vilnius office at least 3 days per week.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of one or more agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality software against clear KPIs.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap, working with product managers and peer engineering leaders.
• Design and enforce engineering best practices: coding standards, testing, observability and Definition of Done.
• Lead hiring, performance management and career development, and coach engineers at all levels.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and other engineering managers on multi-team initiatives.
• Proactively identify and remove delivery risks and champion quality, incident response and continuous improvement.
• Influence technical architecture through design reviews and ensure scalable, reliable systems.
• Help build the engineering presence, including local talent acquisition and onboarding.

Required profile

• 1+ years leading engineering teams in travel, focused on supplier integrations (flights, hotels, trains via Direct APIs, GDS, NDC, NDC[X]) or large-scale third-party content integrations.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership role; equivalent experience considered.
• Proven ownership of the full people management lifecycle and coaching of engineers, including senior engineers and emerging technical leads.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; no specific certification required.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Required skills

• Distributed systems, API design and backend service architecture.
• Agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and observability.
• Hands-on use of GitHub, Jira and logging/observability platforms, open to AI-assisted development tools.
• Comfort working in a distributed, multilingual organization across time zones.

What we offer

• Base pay from 6,000 to 7,080 EUR gross per month, plus a yearly bonus of about 15% of annual salary.
• RSU package worth 50,000 USD gross, with possible yearly refreshes.
• Work from almost anywhere up to 20 days per year, and a company-wide vacation week once a year.
• Health insurance, flexible sick time, paid therapy sessions, HeadSpace subscription, free lunch twice a week, no-meeting Fridays and paid volunteering time.