Airbnb, founded in 2007, has evolved into a global platform with over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build a social platform that connects hosts, enabling collaboration and community engagement while developing scalable backend systems and intelligent features.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build novel products and features
- Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience with a BS/Masters or 4+ years with a PhD
- Experience building & launching high-impact systems
- 3 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products
- Previous experience with domain driven design and context mapping
- You are a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills
- End-to-end 'big picture' perspective that connects technical decisions to real user impact
- Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality