Senior Staff Engineer, Airbnb
Users
$244-307k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$244-307k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains
- BS or MS in CS or related field
- Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross functionally with Product, Design and Data Science teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. Examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
- Willing to work across the full stack to address technical challenges anywhere in the system
- Experience with working in a cross-functional team that touches many of the core systems and user flows at Airbnb
- Experience with service oriented architecture
- Proficiency in one or more backend server languages (Java/Kotlin), and expertise in popular storage systems such as relational databases, noSQL and caching
- Breadth of knowledge in identity and users domain is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated product oriented engineer who is passionate about making a difference through their work
- We are at the early journey of building a company-wide user centric platform and products in a multi-year effort
- You will have the unique opportunity to shape the technical directions from the beginning
- You will be in charge of coming up with large scalable architecture for one or multiple User domain areas, prototyping user interactions and new product areas along with client engineers and cross functional team members, and leading a group of talented engineers to deliver high quality user experience through multiple releases
- Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality products
- Create paved paths and best practices for the User entity platform and drive alignments and adoptions across the company
- Lead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for serving user product flows and user data
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
- Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable
- Mentor engineers both within and outside of 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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