KAYAK expands its talent base in Lithuania to support AI innovation and corporate travel planning

KAYAK, a leading travel search engine, is expanding its engineering and product teams and plans to hire additional talent across its Lithuanian operations in 2026.

The upcoming hiring round will focus primarily on software engineers, with KAYAK’s Lithuanian offices working across Java, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, C#, and Python. Many of these new hires will work on AI innovation initiatives and support the rapid growth of KAYAK for Business, the company’s corporate travel planning platform.

KAYAK opened the Kaunas office in 2018 and expanded to Vilnius in 2023, where the company has dedicated workspaces at Talent Garden, a tech coworking hub, and now has more than 100 employees in Lithuania.

The Lithuanian teams have played a central role in developing KAYAK’s latest AI-powered tools, including Ask AI – an industry first that lets travelers start planning their trip in a chat, while flight, hotel, and rental car results update live alongside the conversation, combining the ease of AI with the power of a traditional results page.

KAYAK has more than 800 employees worldwide and helps travelers in over 60 markets and across more than 25 languages find the best options for flights, hotels, cruises, vacations, and rental cars.

About KAYAK

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. Trusted by millions of travelers, the KAYAK app makes travel planning seamless on iOS and Android, and we also support business travelers with our corporate travel solution.