Staff Web Engineer, Airbnb
Reservation Management
$204-259k
+ Bonus + Equity
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$204-259k
+ Bonus + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have demonstrated proficiency in collaborating closely with Design partners to rapidly ideate, prototype, develop, and ship innovative product experiences
- 10+ years of industry experience
- Strong expertise in the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript
- Extensive experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor
- Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
- Deep understanding of frontend architecture and improving build processes (npm, yarn, webpack, parcel)
- Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for iOS client development)
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Interest in innovations within the web community
- Nice to have: demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
What the job involves
- The Reservation Management team drives critical booking and post-booking flows in the Guest and Host Product
- The team is responsible for large engineering systems that power Reservation Details, Order management, and Alterations among other areas
- Furthermore, this team is also responsible for the Experiences product booking flow along with a charter to explore newer product areas, executing on them end to end
- We are looking for an engineering leader who can be a champion for the web community in the broader team while driving end-to-end development of key products
- Experience with building scalable practices that generally guide web development for a series of products is a quality we are looking for
- Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
- Design and implement scalable web practices across the Reservation Management team
- Be a champion of the team’s web community, mentor other engineers and uplevel the broader team’s culture
- Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
- Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
- Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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