Job Opening

Software Engineer in our Concord, Massachusetts office.

The Pitch

• Kayak.com is a cool website, and we are extremely customer focused.
• Travel is a huge part of US economy and one of the top few
  ecommerce categories.
• Our team includes key cofounders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia.
• We have a very, very strong team of programmers, and we use
  cool technology.
• You will get more stuff done and have more fun here than at any
  job you have had.
• We pay well, and we don’t kill you with a million hours a week.

Key Responsibilities for this Position

• Develop java framework for analysis of availability
  and pricing data, incorporating results into real-time search architecture.
• Creation of tools for testing and improving the customer
  experience of the kayak.com meta-search engine.
• Embrace and extend existing search architecture, with focus on
  reliability etc.

Works With

• Chief architect for overall platform standards and spider
  architect for search code.
• QA manager to co-design autotest plans which you will develop as
  part of your code.
• Product management and business development on feature
  requirements and priorities.
• Business technology partners, including the folks whose sites we
  search.
• This position reports to our Director of Technology in Concord, MA
  USA.

Candidate Attributes

• Quick out of the gate, fast learner, thrives with very strong
  colleagues.
• Passionate about architecture, clean code, reliability and
  automated testing.
• Fun, ethical, passionate.

Candidate Experience

• We don’t care where you went to school, or if you went to school.
• We don’t care what languages you use to program.
• We don’t care how many years of experience you have.
• You must be the strongest programmer on a 5+ person team for a
  successful internet product.
• It might help if you knew stuff like lex, yacc, regular expressions, etc.
• It would be fun if you were a world class kayak athlete, or world
  class at something.

For More Information

Send resume to i-want-to-be-a-rock-star@kayak.com.

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