Principal Software Architect
Kayak.comKaunas Office, Vilnius Office · Remote · Lead / Staff / Principal
€7,000 – €10,000 / month
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What this role is
KAYAK seeks a Principal Software Architect to shape the technical strategy for their corporate travel platform, overseeing system design and leading architectural initiatives across multiple engineering teams. This senior role suits experienced architects comfortable balancing technical excellence with cross-team influence in a distributed, complex domain.
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What they do together
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What they ask for
Required
- Design scalable architectures for e-commerce systems
- Proficiency in Java or JVM-based language
- Lead architectural design across multiple teams with design documents and technical reviews
- Influence technical direction across teams without direct authority
- Experience with observability and production operations
- Fluent written and verbal English communication
Nice to have
- Experience in travel technology domain
- B2B integration and identity standards (service-to-service authentication, enterprise identity platforms)
- Integrating AI or machine learning into production backend systems
- Event-driven architectures or asynchronous processing
- Service-oriented monorepo experience