Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Airbnb
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$200-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
- Proficiency in one or more client platforms: iOS (preferred!), Android, or Web
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, and technical quality
- Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within a large engineering organization as well as cross functionally
- Strong collaboration via code reviews and architecture discussions, and motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
- Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale
- Experience working on a product engineering team or customer-centric platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization
- [Bonus] Experience developing products with complex UIs using motion and or video
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What the job involves
- Airbnb’s Storefronts team is responsible for the front door of Airbnb’s search product. The team works on high impact surfaces across Airbnb’s homepage, categories, and Experiences products and aims to inspire our guests to explore and discover the best Stays and Experiences on Airbnb
- Drive the team’s technical strategy and alignment with Search teams as well as infrastructure, relevance, and client foundation partners to enable development of new features for Airbnb search
- Identify and deliver opportunities to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of our systems and the broader Search team’s velocity working in them
- Evaluate design explorations and provide input on technical feasibility. Identify future capabilities required to support product needs and align with partner teams to deliver key foundations and enable the next generation of search product features at Airbnb
- Provide mentorship to junior and senior team members to support their career and technical growth
- Host a review of the team’s foundation goals and technical roadmap with partners across search to get feedback and align projects and goals across the group
- Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required. Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design and evaluate it with partner teams
- Deliver the technical design and code for a key foundational initiative to enable multiple features/products on Airbnb’s search product
- Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship and maintain product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Airbnb engineering organization
- Maintain health of Airbnb’s systems by leading incident response, monitoring trends over time and delivering steady improvements Airbnb’s systems
- Review a team member’s technical design for an upcoming feature and provide feedback on implementations via code review
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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