Staff iOS Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host
$204-255k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-255k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of iOS Engineering experience in the tech industry, with ownership responsibility over multiple product surfaces
- A design-focused iOS engineer, preferably with experience using Swift and SwiftUI. You’re also aware of cross-platform similarities and differences, and can advocate for web and Android concerns
- Possess an eye for visual detail, strong product sense, and a passion for UI and UX product development
- Track record of strong partnership with design and product leadership, through proactive collaboration, building prototypes, and leadership demos
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams, architecting, building, and releasing complex user products
- Excellent engineering and coding skills, and experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs. Solid understanding of animation and motion, as well as client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Demonstrated ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall architecture and product/design capabilities. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Android, iOS, web, and backend engineers
- A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community
What the job involves
- As a Staff Design-Centric iOS Engineer on the User, Listings & Platform Client team at Airbnb, you’ll play a critical role in partnering with our design and product leads to drive our explorations into ensuring quality
- This domain spans tracking and measuring across Host and Guest signals, surfacing insights to improve Host performance and set Guest expectations, and collaborating with ML engineers to leverage technical capabilities for delightful user experiences
- You’ll work with other engineers to define, build, and shape the future of Airbnb’s Users, Listings, and Quality related product flows, such as authentication, user profiles, reviews, performance insights, and supply onboarding and management
- The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people
- We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust
- Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive critical product systems that enable the company’s future vision
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Experience Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality user experiences
- Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions for Quality-related products
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
- Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices
- Hands-on development, including building prototypes, leadership presentations, and design and code reviews
- Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors
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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