Software Engineer, Airbnb
Tax Experience, BizTech
$162-186k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$162-186k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent practical experience
- 2-4+ years industry experience
- Prior real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#
- Able to communicate well with a wide variety of cross functional partners such as Legal, Customer Support, Experience Design, etc
- Skilled at managing initiatives with ambiguous or rapidly shifting requirements
- Able to contribute to the enrichment of the general engineering culture of the wider organization
- Experience with Tax, Compliance, Finance, or similar domains highly desirable, especially DAC7, OECD Model Rules, KYC, VAT, etc
What the job involves
- The Tax Experience team solves some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business and our customers
- We are a cross functional team who own user-facing products virtually every Host or Guest on Airbnb interacts with, and our mission is to remove friction from the user journey while protecting Airbnb’s ability to operate worldwide
- As a Software Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge with innovative solutions that enable business agility, efficiency, and accuracy
- You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases
- In addition, you will excel at solving a range of complex problems, developing end-to-end features, and strengthening your domain knowledge over time
- Together, we’ll pioneer innovative ways to deliver faster, more accurate, and higher-quality outcomes for Airbnb and its users
- Write code, owning end to end features as part of large, crucial products on our roadmap
- Work collaboratively with your core team on solution design, implementation details, and operational excellence
- Execute on new ideas that will enable us to build products that can more effectively adapt to fluid or ambiguous business needs
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
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 HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
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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