Senior Staff Engineer, Airbnb
Guest & Host, Booking Flow
$235-300k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$235-300k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Experience building, leading, and architecting full-stack products and systems at enterprise scale with a great impact
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, and working cross functionally with Product and Data Science teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. Examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
What the job involves
- As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with our senior leaders across the broader technical organization.
- Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors at Airbnb are Software Engineers which means we expect you to be hands on and contribute code
- Working closely with cross functional teams including design, product marketing, prototyping and others to envision a unique, delightful, extensible Guest booking experience
- Envision and build a scalable foundation for enabling a suite of new offerings for Guests to purchase
- Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and delive. frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
- Performing design and code reviews and advise/mentor other engineers at Airbnb
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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