Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Community Support Engineering
$180-220k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 2+ years with a PhD
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience
- Proficient in any of the following programming languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on Rails
- Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems (e.g.well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
- Problem solving: Ability to evaluate technical approaches to problems and evaluate tradeoffs
- Communication: Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with stakeholders verbally and in writing
- Strong project scoping and project management skills
- Ability to mentor and develop other engineers
What the job involves
- The CS Money team is spearheading the development of a pioneering platform for financial transactions related to community support, aiming to redefine the way money moves between guests, hosts, and Airbnb
- This endeavor addresses critical challenges:
- Unifying Transaction Management: We're creating a comprehensive platform to consolidate existing tools, enhancing security and accessibility for all financial interactions within Airbnb
- Enhancing User Experience: Our goal is to simplify financial processes with intuitive interfaces and automated workflows, significantly reducing manual efforts and errors
- Facilitating Seamless Integration: We aim to ease the integration of new products and services, ensuring rapid adoption and streamlined financial transactions across Airbnb's offerings
- Establishing Robust Controls: Implementing centralized spending control and oversight mechanisms, we're setting new standards for transaction integrity, compliance, and fraud prevention
- Empowering Decisions with Intelligence: Advancing automation and intelligence to optimize financial decision-making processes, from transaction eligibility to fraud detection
- Work in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with a cross-functional team
- You’ll be responsible for coming up with creative solutions using skills including Service Oriented Architecture, real-time system, anti-fraud and payments technologies
- Lead the team to design and complete our major technology transformation, and driven cross-team collaboration
- Mentor and grow other engineers in the team
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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