Software Engineer, Marketplace API

Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. The Software Engineer on the Marketplace API team will drive company growth by designing and launching APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the company growth as it explores solutions outside Airbnb
• Lead cross-team projects end-to-end
• 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
• Design, build and launch APIs and integrations with our internal and external partners
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers to deliver high quality products
• Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable
• Mentor team members who have less experience

Requirements:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Experience leading projects
• Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality
• 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
• Previous experience working with third party API's is a plus
• Previous experience with chatbot/AI product would be a plus