Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Pricing Availability 

United States 

280063873

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Engineer in Pricing and Availability, you’ll lead the development and refinement of major new features at the heart of the Guest experience on Airbnb. This includes reconciling new features with existing functionality, working closely with Designers to shape desired product goals into a feasible and viable Guest user experience, and last but not least, identifying underlying patterns and abstractions to help increase developer velocity while maintaining technical quality on critical surfaces for the Airbnb Guest experience.

At the Staff+ level, our Engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• 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
• Nurture a culture of happy healthy teams including supportive feedback, technical quality, and having fun
• Steer end-to-end product with Product Managers, Design, and UX by engaging early and often to guide teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Demonstrated expertise and be hands-on in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team, and across teams, at Airbnb
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user experience
• Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) skills for hands-on IC work
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment