Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Quality Engineering
$185-223k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-223k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of software development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- Demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Swift, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#
- Demonstrated expertise in developing for testability, test automation frameworks and infrastructure
- Experience architecting and/or developing distributed systems
- Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams and leaders
- Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
What the job involves
- The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems
- We own and continuously improve Airbnb’s test automation tools, environments and frameworks
- We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems
- As a global company and product, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to our internal stakeholders
- Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the tooling and frameworks necessary to assure quality at scale
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by architecting and developing our test tools/environments/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, leading design reviews to architect testable systems, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability
- You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions
- Build, maintain and support our platforms – infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise in distributed systems
- Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
- Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
- Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
- Work with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes
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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