Software Engineer, Airbnb
Booking Orchestration
$157-180.6k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$157-180.6k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 2-4+ 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 service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication
- Comfort operating services in production (on-call participation, reliability guardrails, incident learnings)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across teams at Airbnb
What the job involves
- Booking is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that enables the connection between our guests and hosts. The Orchestration team is a high-impact team focused on building the next generation of our order orchestration system. We collaborate with Bookings, Payments, and Trust teams and cross-functional partners to improve the efficiency, reliability and ergonomics of the system. We seek to drive innovative solutions which will enable us to revolutionize the travel experience and advance Airbnb’s mission
- As a Booking Orchestration Engineer, you will design, build, and operate features and subsystems within our team’s domain that improve booking reliability, performance, and user experience. You’ll contribute to technical direction in your area, partner across adjacent teams when needed, and help raise the bar for engineering quality within the team
- Design, implement, launch, and operate services that improve booking reliability, scalability, and performance
- 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 Bookings, Payments, and Trust to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure robust integrations
- Proactively grow knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving order orchestration systems
- Help define and improve coding standards, development processes, operational runbooks, and best practices
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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