Senior 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 a Senior Engineering Manager you will lead one or more agile engineering teams delivering software for the K4B business, play a key role in shaping the 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

• 3+ years leading engineering teams in the travel industry, focused on supplier integrations (flights, hotels, trains via Direct APIs, GDS, NDC) or large-scale third-party content integrations.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership role; equivalent experience considered.
• Proven ownership of the full people management lifecycle and experience coaching engineers at multiple levels.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; no 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.
• Version control (e.g. GitHub), issue tracking (e.g. Jira) and logging/observability platforms.
• Comfort in a distributed, multilingual organization across time zones.

What we offer

• Base pay from 7,080 to 7,900 EUR gross per month, plus significant yearly bonuses 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.