Senior Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Marketing Technology
$244-304k
This role may also be eligible for bonus and equity
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$244-304k
This role may also be eligible for bonus and equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of industry and web development experience
- Experience building, leading, and architecting frontend products and systems at enterprise scale with a great impact
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading platform teams, setting technical direction and strategy, and working cross functionally with product, design and engineering teams
- Extensive experience with frontend architecture and hands on experience with HTML, CSS, Typescript and React
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners
- Ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business stakeholders to develop a unified approach to content platform infrastructure
- Good understanding of cross-platform client similarities and differences to advocate for or against UX patterns and/or technology choices
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff technical individual contributor, you will be responsible for driving technical strategy, alignment, and execution for marketing technology’s unique problem space
- Even at a senior level, all Software Engineers at Airbnb are expected to be hands on and contribute code, and be involved in the architecture / design
- Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to understand requirements and explore potential solutions
- Partner with senior leaders across the broader technical organization at Airbnb to ensure we are building right solutions
- Architect reliable and scalable solutions to enable no code content management system
- Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation
- Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
- Perform design and code reviews and up-level other engineers at Airbnb
- Work with other Airbnb teams to understand and uplevel Airbnb’s frontend
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
Few 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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