Responsibilities
- Deliver well-scoped front-end features for KAYAK's Cars search vertical that reach millions of travelers daily, working alongside senior engineers who will support your growth
- Implement clean, maintainable React and TypeScript code that meets the team's quality standards
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate clearly defined requirements into polished, user-facing experiences across web and mobile
- Participate in code reviews — both receiving and providing constructive feedback
- Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure reliability and prevent regressions
- Leverage AI coding tools (such as Claude Code) to improve your development velocity and code quality, in line with the team's engineering practices
- Engage actively in agile ceremonies — sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives — contributing ideas and flagging blockers to keep delivery on track
Requirements
- A degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field — or a portfolio of work that demonstrates the same foundational skills
- Foundational proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Hands-on experience with React or a comparable modern UI framework
- Familiarity with version control using Git and comfort contributing to a shared, collaborative codebase
- An ability to work with AI coding tools to improve development velocity and code quality, in line with the team's engineering practices
- Clear communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and openness to giving and receiving feedback through code reviews and agile ceremonies
- The capacity to thrive in a hybrid working model, including the ability to attend the Cambridge or Concord office at least 3 days per week
Nice to Have
- Exposure to TypeScript
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
- Company-wide week off a year – the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- No meeting Fridays
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- Competitive retirement and health plans
- Free lunch 2 days per week
- Fun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Cambridge, MA, Concord, MA
Additional Information
- Role requires working from Cambridge or Concord, MA office at least 3 days per week
- Compensation includes competitive base salary, annual bonus, and recurring RSU grants
- No meeting Fridays
- Company-wide week off annually
- Free lunch 2 days per week
