Senior Backend Engineer, Airbnb

Hosting Services

Salary not provided
Senior level
Paris
Airbnb

Community marketplace for holiday accomodation

Open for applications

Airbnb

Community marketplace for holiday accomodation

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceSharing Economy

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Senior level
Paris

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceSharing Economy

Company mission

To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend / full-stack development
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
  • Considerable experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions
  • Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures
  • Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders
  • Mentorship to junior developers

What the job involves

  • As part of the team and in collaboration with engineering teams based in San Francisco, you will focus on elevating this project to a global scale with new functionality
  • You’ll be able to work on exciting, innovative and technically challenging work, supporting a major company strategy while finding solutions in areas such as UX, scale, performance, robustness and quality
  • Own key company level problem statements and drive critical projects
  • Lead the scoping phase, the technical requirements and the implementation of the new functionality
  • Partner closely with other Engineering teams and cross functional partners including PM, Design, Data, and TPM
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
  • Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations
  • Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Co Hosting and organizations such as Listings and Users to understand and prioritize technical requirements
  • Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems
  • Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices

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.

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Insights

Top investors

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

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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