Software Engineer, Listings

Airbnb is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests. They are seeking a highly skilled engineer to join the Listings Platform team, responsible for building and maintaining the core data models and storage infrastructure for various product verticals, enabling hosts to manage their spaces efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build novel products and features
• Work with senior engineers technical leaders in the team to deliver system improvements that would enable fast product feature deliveries
• Create paved paths and best practices within the listings space
• Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable
• Collaborate with team members and cross functional partners to define product definitions and roadmaps

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proficiency in one or more JVM based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.) are preferred
• Passion for learning. Our team touches the whole backend stack of Airbnb and collaborates extensively with other teams, quick learning and strong communication skills is a must
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale data applications is a plus
• Experiences of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, indexing and associated trade-offs is a plus