Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host
$210-220k
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$210-220k
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
- 7+ years of relevant engineering work experience
- Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
- Proficiency in one or more JVM based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.) are preferred
- Familiar with frontend web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React and Graphql etc)
- Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication
- Successfully partnering with Operations, Policy, Legal, and Product functions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to structure complex, ambiguous problems, identify patterns, and propose data-driven solutions
- Self-driven with strong project management abilities
- Ability to drive end-to-end initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing timelines, and proactively removing roadblocks for high-quality outcomes in fast-moving environments
What the job involves
- The Cities Team at Airbnb is chartered with driving sustainable global growth by developing the necessary software systems to enable Airbnb to work effectively with local governments
- This involves designing systems that allow us to flexibly model the breadth of regulations around the world, deploy them safely and operationalize thousands around the world
- At the same time, we are stewards of our global business and build systems to maximize growth and retention of global supply
- Advocating for fair regulations is key, as it establishes a clear framework for Airbnb's continued growth and ensures continuous business expansion
- This is a highly collaborative team that works in close partnership with Operations, Product, Policy and legal functions around the company
- In addition, you will be part of a global team with members in the US and India
- As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will be responsible for building the tools and systems to scale regulatory launches worldwide with a focus on supply growth and retention
- You will design and build product and platform features to achieve our goals. You will help define and maintain a culture of craftsmanship and excellence
- You will represent the engineering team with global cross-functional partners across a variety of regulatory projects
- Work closely with global cross-functional stakeholders for product alignment, requirements and shaping specifications
- Build our features and platforms for high-scale and reliability and employing engineering best practices
- Foster a culture of craftsmanship that emphasizes both the successful delivery of business initiatives and a commitment to quality
- Strategising and brainstorming opportunities along with Product, Partnerships & other cross-functional leaders and driving effective relevant metrics to measure the success of these initiatives
- Support 24x7 engineering ops to maintain high reliability services
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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