Senior Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Viaduct
$244-304k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$244-304k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 12+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment. You should have direct experience as an engineer working at a staff+ level
- BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
- Expertise in leading teams in the backend distributed systems domain with a focus on multitenancy and performance
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
- Able to effectively work with senior leadership in setting strategic 6+ month direction
- Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior and staff engineers
- Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, technical strategy & roadmap
- You will help deliver industry leading solutions that scale with the needs of our production backend in partnership with other infrastructure and product teams at Airbnb
- Be part of an impactful product infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices with GraphQL. Support the team in delivering solutions that balance developer experience, reliability, efficiency and quality at scale, while making this layer easy to use for developers building product features on top of Viaduct
- Be conversant in systems design and architecture, reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions and technical direction for your team
- Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and senior ICs
- Partner with a broad range of cross-organizational stakeholders to determine the right strategy for collaboration and shared OKRs
- Set clear expectations with the team regarding operational excellence and maintain a strong focus on execution to ensure the delivery of features and functionality with the predictability that the business can count on
- Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture
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
Few 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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