Staff Software Engineer, Guest & Host - Pricing Guidance Team

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

Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high-quality experiences for our outstanding community of Hosts and Guests.

The Pricing team empowers Airbnb hosts to better run their business by providing the tools and education to implement pricing strategies that adapt to their evolving goals. The Pricing Guidance team sits in this area and works closely with other engineering teams, Data Science, Modeling, Design, and Product to help our hosts.

The Difference You Will Make

We are looking for a product-focused Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. As a Staff Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals.

A Typical Day

• Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
• Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
• Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
• Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop new host pricing functionality
• Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hands-on implementation of those solutions
• Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
• Mentor and grow more junior engineers.

Your Expertise

• 10+ years industry experience
• Experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products
• Experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams
• Excited to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices

Location

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. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. The list of excluded states is continuously evolving.

Benefits

The base pay range is $204,000 to $255,000 USD and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.