Software Engineer, Airbnb
Reputation
$153-184.9k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Posted today
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Posted today
$153-184.9k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer who is passionate about making a difference through their work
- 2+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains
- Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features
- Willing to work across the backend stack to address technical challenges anywhere in the system
- Experience with working in a collaborative environment
- Experience with service oriented architecture
- Proficiency in one or more backend server languages (Ruby/Java/Kotlin), and in popular storage systems such as relational databases, noSQL and caching
- Breadth of knowledge in reviews and metrics domain is a plus
What the job involves
- Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities
- Reputation is at the core of Airbnb's trust platform
- The Reputation team is responsible for everything related to a user's reputation, from reviews and superhost and standards enforcement
- With the complexity ranging from individual travelers and hosts to large vacation rental businesses
- Reviews - As a two sided marketplace, reviews allows both guests and hosts to recognize and keep each other accountable. Collecting and acting on data collected from our users, (including the business logic of the questions we ask in the review flow) is the backbone of the reputation team
- Superhost - The concept of a host is core to Airbnb, the superhost program is built to recognize and reward top hosts for going above and beyond to provide an incredible experience for guests
- Standards - Airbnb is built on trust, the reputation team is tasked with escalating education and enforcement when poor feedback is received
- Insights - Data is the center of Airbnb, powering all things. The Reputation team provides easily consumable and accurate data to hosts about how they are performing and opportunities they may want to take advantage of
- The reputation team is fundamentally improving how review data is collected and stored
- We are working towards modularizing our systems and creating an ecosystem that can span beyond the two sided marketplace we serve today
- We are at the early stages of a multi-year journey to build a company-wide review platform
- As a key contributor, you will have the unique opportunity to be involved from the early days of redefining the Reviews space for Airbnb
- Some projects will have you focusing on one particular layer, while many others will require you to move across the stack fluidly
- Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality products
- Create paved paths and best practices within the reviews, standards, and insights space
- Lead efforts to architect, build, and launch solutions for serving reviews flows and providing data to our users
- Work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
- Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable
- Collaborate with team members and cross functional partners to define product definitions and roadmaps
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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