Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host, Partner Integrations
$190-220k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Be an early applicant
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$190-220k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience
- Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
- Experience leading projects
- Previous experience working with third party API’s is a plus
- Previous experience with authentication or secure signing mechanisms is a plus
- Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality
- Good judgment in making and communicating tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
- High sense of user empathy and the ability to identify and solve for user needs and friction
- End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
What the job involves
- You will be working closely with a strong, fast-moving team integrating new product functionality into the Guest experience of Airbnb’s core product
- This role also interacts with a large cross-functional team of partners across product and design, business and partnerships, customer support and more
- Contribute directly to company growth in new areas as we explore partnerships outside of Airbnb
- Lead projects end-to-end – from working with partners directly, to clicking that launch button
- Identify patterns that allow us to scale new partnerships quickly in the future
- Have attention to detail about the user experience
- A Typical Day:
- Design, write and test new APIs and integrations with partners
- Write documents to propose, align and document changes to the system
- Debug external integrations and join the team on-call rotation
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers, and directly with external partners
- Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction
- Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable
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
Share this job
View 101 more jobs at Airbnb