Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host
Location: London, United Kingdom
Department: Software Engineering
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
We are building the next generation of Airbnb experiences for both guests and hosts across Europe and EMEA, with a singular focus: making Airbnb successful in the region's 40+ markets. While our initial focus is on the booking surfaces - payments, search, pricing, and inventory discovery - our charter spans the entire app, and we're empowered to make changes anywhere they're needed to win in the region. As part of the Guest and Host organisation, and in collaboration with engineering teams based in San Francisco and globally, you will focus on enabling localised, trustworthy, and differentiated experiences that reflect how Europeans actually travel and host. You'll be able to work on exciting, innovative, and technically challenging work, supporting a major company strategy.
The Difference You Will Make:
- Own key company level problem statements and drive critical projects
- Lead the scoping phase, the technical requirements and the implementation of the new functionality
- Partner closely with other Engineering teams and cross functional partners including PM, Design, Data, and TPM.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
A Typical Day:
- Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimisations
- Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Booking & Pricing and organisations such as Listings and Users to understand and prioritise technical requirements
- Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems
- Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend/full-stack development
- Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Considerable experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organisation and cross functions
- Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures
- Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
- Mentorship of junior developers
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
How We'll Take Care of You:
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range shown below is annualized, is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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