Backend Software Engineer, Airbnb
Storefronts
$157-180.6k
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
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
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Developing backend applications and APIs in Java
- Working in distributed systems & microservice architectures
- Service monitoring and alerting techniques
- Product sense to balance technical and product requirements to develop quality experiences for users
- Collaboration skills with cross functional and non-technical partners
- Willing to embrace challenges and changes with a positive attitude
- Nice to have: Experience working in with GraphQL, Kotlin, Thrift IDL, and server driven architectures
What the job involves
- Airbnb’s Storefronts team is responsible for the front-door to Airbnb’s guest product experience. The team aims to help users efficiently navigate Airbnb’s app and site, introduce new offerings on Airbnb’s global travel platform, and inspire users to discover the world with Airbnb. The team works on high impact surfaces across Airbnb’s homepage and search pages
- The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, and data science to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We also work closely with other engineering teams on systems that enable engineers to: develop more efficiently; create improvements that make the product more performant and extensible; and build technical architectures that are scalable and robust
- Deliver useful, personalized new features for Airbnb’s homepage; enabling guests around the world to find places to stay and more on Airbnb
- Support new, growing products on Airbnb’s global platform like Airbnb Experiences and Services
- Contribute to technical improvements that make the team’s products higher quality and increase the team’s velocity
- Develop new APIs to power interfaces that enable users to navigate and discover new Airbnb products
- Contribute to improving performance and robustness of backend services and architecture powering Airbnb’s homepage & search alongside other search product engineering teams
- Contribute to development of new product features and experiences with a cross-discipline group of engineers
- Use AI tools to develop new features for Airbnb’s guests and tools for the Airbnb team to move faster
- Work closely with cross functional partners in design, product, marketing, and data science to bring new features from design to production
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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