Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
iOS
$204-260k
Eligible for bonus + equity
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-260k
Eligible for bonus + equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ Years of industry experience
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Experience shipping one or more Swift or Objective-C iOS apps, ideally currently available in the App Store
- Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
- Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming
- Experience with prototyping is a big plus
- Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for iOS client development)
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Interest in innovations within the mobile industry
- Nice to have: demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
What the job involves
- Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems by rapidly prototyping; Recognize technical challenges in the early stages and collaborate closely with the team
- Take an active role in leading and working with Engineering partners to create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations
- Hands on develop, working with teams on edge solutions to problems that come about when developing at scale
- Passionate about UX: You have a keen enthusiasm for creating delightful user experiences for millions of users
- Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter
- Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline
- Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
- Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s
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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