Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Airbnb
Experimentation
$200-254k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-254k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in a hands-on software engineering role, shipping high-quality code to production and building full-stack web applications on a modern stack
- Experience working across the stack, from designing and implementing async APIs for clients to managing db storage and background tasks
- Experience with Python, especially data science toolkits like Pandas and Numpy
- Experience with at least one modern web framework (e.g. React, Angular) and strong JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals
- Experience working directly with customers and/or design to build high-quality, intuitive user experiences, ideally for data-rich or enterprise applications
- [Bonus points] Experience with data visualization or data-intensive applications
- [Bonus points] Experience with experimentation platforms
What the job involves
- As a member of the Experimentation Team you will be working with talented engineers on building infrastructure for cutting-edge experimentation problems that go beyond traditional a/b testing
- The primary focus of this position is on the web interface for setting up and managing experiments, including reporting and helping users analyze experiment results
- You will work closely with our internal customers–data science and design teams–to build tools that are intuitive, easy to use and capable of generating powerful, interpretable insights
- The stack you would be working with consists of technologies like Python (APIs), Typescript, React, GraphQL and MySQL
- Develop new features for our experimentation UI across our client (React/Typescript), APIs (Python/GraphQL), and database
- Work closely with design and key customers to develop great UX that helps our users intuitively use our tools
- Partner with teams across the organization to improve the impact of experimentation across the company
- Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design, through implementation, testing, and on-call
- Work closely with Data Science partners to implement sophisticated statistical methodology into the platform
- Participate in experiment reviews to understand how our customers use our infrastructure, identify areas for improvement and learn about features rolling out across the company
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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