Senior Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Marketing Technology
$244-304k
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$244-304k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- Experience building, leading, and architecting full-stack products and systems at enterprise-scale with broad impact
- Demonstrated technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, ability to set technical direction and strategy and work cross functionally with Product, Design and Data Science teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall hosting architecture and product/design capabilities
- Strong prototyping / engineering spiking skills
- Extensive experience with Java, Python and or other programming languages. Expertise with frameworks such as GraphQL, React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- This role specifically is to be a technical leader on the Communications platform team under Marketing technology
- As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Marketing Technology team at Airbnb, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining a state-of-the-art platform to enable effective marketing campaigns and engagement with our customers
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Data/Analytics Engineer, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers to achieve the ambitious goals of the Marketing organization
- Work with design and product partners to understand user journeys and requirements and rapidly prototype / explore potential solutions to Host problems
- Work closely with other Senior leaders to define and drive northstar architectures / frameworks and long-term technical strategy that can be leveraged across the broader Marketing Technology organization
- Establish best practices for engineering and help build an awesome tech culture in MarTech
- Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation
- Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
- Perform design and code reviews and up-level other engineers at Airbnb
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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