Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host
$255-306k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$255-306k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years industry experience
- You have experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products
- You have experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams
- You are excited to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- You have demonstrated an ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices
What the job involves
- We are looking for a product-focused Staff Backend Software Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals
- Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
- Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
- Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
- Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop new host pricing functionality
- Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hand-ons implementation of those solutions
- Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
- Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
- Mentor and grow more junior engineers
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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