Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Trust Experience
$204-254k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-254k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
- Past hands-on experience with native iOS/Android, and/or frontend Web UI development
- Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams and multiple cross-functional partners
- Track record of effective change management and cross-functional stakeholder influence
- Proven experience leading consumer product and/or platform engineering teams
- Experience with effectively creating alignments with multiple teams and operating well in ambiguity
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
- Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building productive, world-class engineering teams
- Experience in backend engineering is a plus
- Experience with the Trust and Safety domain is a plus
What the job involves
- As the engineering manager of the Trust Experience team, you will lead a team of talented iOS, Android and web engineers to build world-class frameworks to mitigate both online and offline risks, platforms for verifying user authenticity and trustworthiness of guests and Hosts, and build guardrails for privacy and policy compliance
- Accountable for leveraging the latest platform offerings to build the next generation of authentication and verification frameworks to build trust on the Airbnb platform
- Manage the team’s roadmap—Vet new ideas and strategic directions, establish a sustainable planning process, balance present and future investments, prioritize projects, drive execution, and ensure high-quality delivery
- Foster an inclusive team culture and environment that encourages collaboration, technical excellence, and innovation via calculated risks and product mindset
- Strengthen the team’s partnerships with key stakeholders in Engineering (across Trust, Payments and Guest & Host organizations), Design, Product Marketing, Data Science, Legal, Privacy and Anti-discrimination
- Manage a frontend engineering team encompassing iOS, Android and web engineers
- Collaborate closely with various Trust engineering teams on multiple concurrent initiatives, taking ownership of the frontend experiences
- Collaborate closely with cross functional partners - design, content and quality engineering
- Efficiently allocate and support engineers across multiple projects. Carefully plan, track, and report on work of the team, identifying problems early
- Conduct daily stand-ups to get an accurate view of your team’s output, strengthen team communication, and support engineers to do their tasks without any friction
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
- Be conversant in systems design/architecture, can reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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