Backend Software Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host
£75-88k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Be an early applicant
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£75-88k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of industry experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree. No prior industry experience required for candidates with a PhD
- Experience in building and scaling high-quality products (or systems) with a focus on operational excellence
- Strong collaboration with colleagues across multiple timezones
- Strong communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders
What the job involves
- We're building the next generation of Airbnb experiences for guests and hosts across Europe and EMEA - and we're looking for a Backend Software Engineer to help us get there
- Our team has a singular mission: make Airbnb the go-to platform across 40+ markets in the region
- We're embedded within the Guest and Host organisation and work in close collaboration with engineering teams in San Francisco and across the globe
- Our work spans the full app, and we're empowered to make changes wherever they're needed to win in the region
- Right now, our focus is on the experiences that matter most - payments, search, pricing, and inventory discovery - but our charter goes far beyond that
- If something needs to change to drive success in Europe, we're the team that makes it happen
- You'll be working on technically challenging, high-impact problems that shape how millions of Europeans travel and host
- From enabling localised experiences that reflect how people in the region actually use the platform, to building the trust and reliability that keeps both guests and hosts coming back - this is work that matters at scale
- If you're excited by complex engineering problems, a broad mandate, and the chance to directly influence one of Airbnb's most important strategic priorities, this is the role for you
- Deliver useful, personalized new features for Airbnb’s hosting experience; enabling hosts around the world to connect with others to make hosting on Airbnb easier
- Build systems that drive reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency in our infrastructure
- Contribute to technical direction in your area, partner across adjacent teams when needed, and help raise the bar for engineering quality within the team
- A Typical Day:
- Write clear technical designs for projects of moderate-to-high complexity, balancing functional requirements and non-functional qualities (resilience, testability, observability)
- Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners in Hosting Services to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure robust integrations
- Contribute to technical improvements that make the team’s products higher quality and increase the team’s velocity
- Help define and improve coding standards, development processes, operational runbooks, and best practices
Salary benchmarks
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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