Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
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$204-255k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Posted today
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Posted today
$204-255k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of software development experience with a minimum of 5 years experience working within payments
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems
- Experience driving initiatives that span across teams or departments
- Ability to work independently while showing being able to deliver production ready code with minimal guidance
- Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await)
- Experience with Java
- Experience with relational databases and caching solutions
- Experience in designing APIs and building RESTful services
- Experience with message queuing, data streaming, and workflow frameworks
- Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architecture
- Experience with Agile software development and Agile software solutions
What the job involves
- We’re looking for engineers with experience in the Payments domain who are independent, thoughtful, creative, focused on quality, and passionate about building the best payment platform
- Design and build highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems
- Make and own critical technical decisions
- Advise on architecture and propose solutions to complex payments problems that span multiple teams and organizations
- Provide guidance on the performance, scalability, reliability, testability, and engineering best practices of the payments platform
- Coach and mentor junior engineers
- Champion a culture of quality and engineering excellence
- Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to turn high-level ideas into concrete initiatives
- Actively contribute to defining and managing the team’s roadmap
- Design and build a platform that has strong reliability, availability and redundancy function
- Build APIs and data models that can handle high QPS traffic with strong consistency and availability
- Implement effective monitoring and alerting to ensure smooth functioning of the platform
- Partner with Product and other stakeholders to innovate and lead new initiatives to improve our Payments transactions recording, orchestration, anomaly detections, reconciliation, payin and payout qualities
- Use agile methodologies such as Scrum for effective planning and execution of projects that advance the roadmap
- Maintain and resolve technical debt in payments platforms
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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