Senior Java Engineer, AdTech

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car, cruise, or vacation package. We’re also transforming the in-travel experience with our app and new accommodation software. For more information, visit www.KAYAK.com.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK's portfolio of metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Many employees are dedicated to one brand, but we all have the benefit of using each others strengths and insights. Together, we're able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.

KAYAK is looking for a talented and motivated backend software engineer to join KAYAK’s AdTech team. As a member of this team, you will be at the forefront of developing KAYAK’s advertising platform that’s built on cutting edge technologies and help drive KAYAK’s business solutions forward. You will have an opportunity to build platforms that our ad partners will use to create and manage their ad content, manage targeting and bids on their ads, work with different data systems, build dashboards and reporting tools and have a huge impact by contributing to the overall success of the company as well as our partners.Your day to day will involve writing code to build APIs, designing data and database schemas, writing algorithms to support analytics and working on large and complex scale and performance problems in the application. The role presents a unique opportunity to work with a geographically distributed team and working with teams across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop and maintain high performance solutions for our AdTech applications including ad targeting, content management and other adjacent sub-systems
• Collaborate cross functionally with other teams including engineering, product, data science and design to drive engineering solutions across the company and deliver a high quality software product
• Work with different data storage systems like MySQL, Memcache, Hive, Aerospike, Snowflake, Redis etc that support our ad platform
• Implement innovative algorithms and models to improve the performance of our targeting to help improve ROI for our partners
• Write automated tests across the entire testing pyramid including unit tests, integration tests, API tests, end to end tests etc to test our systems and drive quality for our applications
• Implement and drive coding practices across our systems to improve the quality and maintainability of our code
• Collaborate with team members to perform code reviews, share knowledge and learn and grow together
• Identify and resolve complex software problems to drive the product and business requirements
• Analyze and resolve complex scalability and performance issues within our ad systems

Please apply if you have:

• 5+ years Java experience, experience with Java web development a plus
• Great programming fundamentals
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong communication skills to effectively articulate technical concepts to technical as well as non-technical members of the team
• Good understanding of relational database like MySQL, Oracle etc
• Understanding of Hive/Hadoop, Aerospike, Redis is a plus

Benefits and Perks

• 4 weeks paid vacation
• Day off on your birthday
• Generous retirement plans
• Awesome health, dental and vision insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Headspace Subscription
• No Meeting Fridays
• Drinks, coffee, snacks, games etc.
• Weekly catered lunches
• Flexible hours
• Regular team events/excursions
• Universal Paid Parental leave

Diversity and Inclusion

We aspire to have a workplace that reflects all of the diverse communities we serve. We know that when we have diverse teams we produce more creative ideas, products, and better outcomes for our team members. OpenTable/KAYAK is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply for roles on our team. Whoever you are, just be you.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privil