Senior Staff Software Engineer, Guest & Host

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the User, Listings & Platform Client team at Airbnb, you’ll play a critical role in driving our supply onboarding and management platform, understanding and simplifying the complex interactions with our ops teams, and ensuring that our architecture scales to multiple supply types, product, and business requirements.  You’ll work with other engineers to define, build, and shape the future of Airbnb’s Users, Listings, and Quality related product flows, such as user profile, reviews, performance insights, and a concentrated focus on listing management and supply onboarding. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on Android, iOS, and web.
• Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions for Listing Onboarding and Management products.
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps.
• Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices.
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry; 4+ years of experience in an Architect or Staff Engineer role, with ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems.
• You possess strong product sense and a passion for UI and UX product development.
• Expertise building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer applications.  Experience with Motion and/or prototyping is a big plus.
• You specialize in either Android, iOS, and/or web, and you factor in all client platforms in interface design and architecture.  Android, prefer experience using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. iOS, prefer experience with Swift and SwiftUI. Web, prefer experience with React or similar javascript-based frameworks.
• Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Demonstrated ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall architecture and product/design capabilities. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Android, iOS, web, and backend engineers.
• A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community.

Benefits

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.