Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Connected Accounts
$185-223k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$185-223k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of backend engineering software development experience
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) skills for hands-on IC work
- Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features
- Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented
- Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions
- Mentorship to junior developers
- Experience in knowledge graph systems is a plus
What the job involves
- Connected Accounts (aka Trust Graph) is a knowledge graph platform that models connections between Airbnb users
- It helps identify fraudulent users who try to circumvent existing defenses by creating duplicate accounts or collude to execute fraudulent transactions
- We also build and maintain various ML models trained on top of this graph data model
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will be owning and driving critical initiatives that help maintain the Trust and Safety of Airbnb platform
- This role requires strong cross-functional collaboration with various product and platform teams to help shape the long term technical vision for the team
- Hands on backend engineering work spanning product enhancements, core infrastructure upgrades as well as improving ML model serving
- Work closely with other trust defense and platform teams to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks by coming up with innovative solutions to detect fraud via knowledge graphs
- Being a collaborative teammate that can help elevate the rest of the engineering organization
- Drive (responsible and accountable for) projects with large open-ended scope spanning a product or platform, and contribute to organizational priorities
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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