Staff Fullstack Engineer, Reservation Management

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.

The Community You Will Join

We have multiple positions available within the Reservation Management team. The Reservation Management team owns critical surfaces, flows, and platforms surrounding the booking Airbnb experience for our guests and Hosts. Within our Guest & Host organization, among other areas this team owns the systems and surfaces responsible for recording all orders at Airbnb and providing a scalable product and foundation for additional products such as travel insurance, Experiences, and more.

With users around the world, development speed, reliability, scalability, and efficiency enabling Airbnb’s vision to “Perfect the core” and “Expand beyond the core” are our team’s core concerns.

As a Staff Engineer on the team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of talented, diverse software developers to operate and improve our core Reservation / Order Platform and drive additional products at Airbnb.

Responsibilities

• Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term.
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions.
• Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations.
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills.
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others.
• Establish a technical vision and deliver solutions that are flexible, always available, efficient, and scale with the needs of the business.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment.
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers.
• End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user experience.

Location & Work Model

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Airbnb, Inc. can be employed in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees cannot be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously evolving and being updated.

Compensation & Benefits

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 for this role is $204,000 — $255,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: [email protected].