Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Booking Orchestration
$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience
- Experience building Booking/Ordering or relevant systems
- Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
- Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication
- Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
- Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
- Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers
What the job involves
- As a Booking Orchestration Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and refinement of major subsystems that power Airbnb bookings
- You will put your experience with distributed systems and business workflow systems at work, playing a pivotal role in transforming the booking ecosystem
- Lead booking engineering projects to improve booking experience, system scalability and performance
- Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors
- Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended foundational technical problems without clearly-known solutions
- Ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Bookings and organizations such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions
- Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems
- Self-driven and ability to be accountable for key deliverables in our booking system
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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