Staff Software Engineer - Guest & Host

Airbnb is a global leader in hospitality that connects hosts and guests for unique experiences. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of hosting services systems, focusing on enhancing product features and ensuring technical excellence across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
• Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• 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
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, UX and numerous platform teams within Airbnb

Requirements:

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures
• 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
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user experience