Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Trust Platform
$185-221k
+ Equity + Bonus
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$185-221k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in frontend web development
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience working with TypeScript/JavaScript, GraphQL and REST APIs
- Experience with React and modern JavaScript libraries
- Fluency in HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions
- Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
- [Bonus] Full-stack development experience is a big bonus
- [Bonus] Experience working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization
- [Bonus] Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming
- [Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments
- [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs
What the job involves
- As a Senior Web Software Engineer, your expertise will be pivotal in developing and evolving both the external and internal facing tools and frameworks/platforms owned by Trust platform used to detect & mitigate fraud, and enforce standards across Airbnb
- You will primarily work closely with a team of cross-platform engineers with collective expertise in web, native, and backend development to define and shape the future of the platform used to enforce standards across Airbnb
- Work closely with cross-functional partners (PM, design) and engineering teams owning various functional surfaces (messaging, cancellations, guest & host standards) across Airbnb to understand the current state of standards enforcement
- Standardize enforcements across various functional areas by ideating and designing an extensible platform
- Work closely with Android, iOS and backend engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions
- Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality
- Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks
- Participate in all phases of software development including architecture/design, implementation and testing
- Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning
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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