Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Core Services, i18n
$191-229.5k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$191-229.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact
- Love collaborating via product reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
- Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
- Will be owners and stewards of Airbnb’s multilingual capabilities
- 5-9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters and 2+ years with a PhD, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript / Typescript, and related web technologies
- Fluency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/C++/etc)
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React and GraphQL)
- Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
- Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners
What the job involves
- The Internationalization team (i18n team) aims to foster global belonging and offer the best localization experience by providing reliable, efficient, scalable, and extensible globalization infrastructure and tooling for Airbnb code, content, and stakeholders
- In Bytelevel Research’s 2022 Globalization Report Card, Airbnb ranked #3 among the top 150 global companies, and #1 (for three years in a row) among all companies in the Travel & Hospitality sector
- The I18n team is a part of the Core Services org within Infrastructure and works closely with our broader Globalization business org to contribute directly to top-line goals as well as make the entire engineering organization more productive
- We are infrastructure engineers with a human focus: customer-centric, quality driven, helpful and empathetic
- Millions of users across the world engage with the Airbnb app in their preferred languages every day
- As an engineer on the i18n Infrastructure team, you will be critical to the continued success and broad appeal of Airbnb
- Build intuitive workflows and tools to serve the needs of our stakeholders, business partners, and end users
- Drive down costs and land efficiency wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades
- Work cross-functionally with partners in Globalization, Data Science, product teams, and external vendors
- Build scalable systems supporting high qps realtime translation requests and efficient retrieval of translated content
- Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization
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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