Senior Software Engineer Guest & Host (Partner Integrations)

Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique travel experiences. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Partner Integration team, responsible for integrating new business partners and functionality into Airbnb’s product, enhancing the guest experience and contributing to company growth.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute directly to company growth in new areas as we explore partnerships outside of Airbnb
• Lead projects end-to-end – from working with partners directly, to clicking that launch button
• Identify patterns that allow us to scale new partnerships quickly in the future
• Have attention to detail about the user experience
• Design, write and test new APIs and integrations with partners
• Write documents to propose, align and document changes to the system
• Debug external integrations and join the team on-call rotation
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers, and directly with external partners
• Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable

Requirements:

• 6+ years of 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 and communicating tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• High sense of user empathy and the ability to identify and solve for user needs and friction
• 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 authentication or secure signing mechanisms is a plus