Software Engineer, Listings

Airbnb was founded in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts worldwide. The Listings Platform team is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance the Listing data plane and control plane, working on core data models and storage infrastructure to improve product features and support hosts in managing their spaces.

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