Senior Engineering Manager, K4B
Kaunas · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Kaunas
About the role
- As a Senior Engineering Manager at KAYAK for Business (K4B), you'll lead one or more agile engineering teams delivering software that helps companies and their travelers move smarter and with less friction.
- You will play a key role in shaping the growing engineering hub while leading teams focused on sustaining and operational quality.
Responsibilities
- Lead a cross functional agile teams focused on sustaining and operational quality
- Mentor a team by providing technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development support.
- Own the team’s technical roadmap, aligning priorities with engineering leadership to support the broader platform strategy.
- Champion backend architecture decisions by leading design reviews and collaborating with technical leaders across engineering.
- Set and enforce engineering best practices for coding, testing, code coverage, and deployment quality.
- Manage day-to-day team operations by removing blockers, balancing the backlog, and maintaining high standards for reliability and security.
- Collaborate with engineering managers from other teams and cross-functional stakeholders to resolve dependencies and support product teams across the company.
- Ensure business unit wide quality standards & processes and SLA’s
- Manage high impact incident remediation and operational tool development for issue resolution with AI enabled technologies
- Monitor team health and delivery metrics, identifying risks early and adjusting priorities as needed.
Requirements
- Proven track record of managing teams for 3+ years within B2B SaaS applications, focusing on improving quality operations, managing enterprise maintenance and system sustainability and meeting contractual SLA’s.
- Demonstrated experience with quality process design and building quality first culture.
- Experience of overseeing cross functional (quality engineers, quality assurance specialists and frontend engineers, backend engineers).
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership or management role directly managing software engineers
- A proven track record of ownership and innovation within a data-driven, results-oriented environment, along with the ability to rapidly learn and master new business domains.
- Experience steering organizational transformation, maximizing gains from agile methodologies, and fostering process optimization and innovation
- Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and backend service architecture
- Demonstrated experience owning the full people management lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotions
- Solid understanding of agile delivery methodologies and the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability practices
- Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Generous additional Health Insurance
- Flexible sick time off
- Additional financial support for your sick leave
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Company-wide vacation week once a year (winter holidays)
- Additional financial support during parental leave
- Free lunch twice a week and daily snacks at the office
Workplace
- Required to work from the Kaunas office 3 days per week
Skills
- GitHub
- Jira
- Distributed Systems
- API Design
- Backend Service Architecture
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Automated Testing
- Observability Practices
- Agile Methodologies
