Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Messaging Platform
$204-259k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$204-259k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
- Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features, ideally related to messaging platform and products
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners
- Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depends on the situation
- Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
- Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability
- Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
- Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
- Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
- Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading a team of very senior, highly motivated, high achieving engineers
- You will work closely with product managers, designers and other engineering leaders to plan and deliver a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities powering Airbnb messaging
- You’ll be finding opportunities to shape ambitious technical and product visions and turn them into a polished reality
- A Typical Day:
- Work with product, design and other stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute roadmap
- Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and platform capabilities
- Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success
- Nurture a culture of engineering excellence
- Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics
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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