Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL

Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Viaduct team, focusing on enhancing the developer experience through a GraphQL platform and collaborating with various engineering teams to improve platform reliability and capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Code in a high-impact, deep-complexity domain. We value a deep-work culture and ensure you have protected focus time to solve hard problems
• Share knowledge and learn from your teammates through collaboration and pairing
• You will navigate ambiguity, taking abstract requirements and refining them into concrete technical roadmaps to improve platform reliability and capabilities
• Partner with our customers - the Viaduct tenant teams - to support their mission to ship an industry-leading user experience
• Contribute to the planning process that informs the strategy and roadmap for the Viaduct platform
• We value sustainable engineering practices. We share on-call responsibilities across a large team and prioritize long-term reliability fixes to minimize off-hours pages

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in a relevant role - ideally in a team that owned a developer platform
• Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
• Experience operating critical online backend services
• Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
• Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL
• Strong preference: expertise with Kotlin
• Strong preference: expertise with AI-enabled development flows