Airbnb Engineering Manager Messaging Platform 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading a team of very senior, highly motivated, high achieving engineers. You will work closely with product managers, designers and other engineering leaders to plan and deliver a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities powering Airbnb messaging. You’ll be finding opportunities to shape ambitious technical and product visions and turn them into a polished reality.

A Typical Day:

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute roadmap
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and platform capabilities
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success.
• Nurture a culture of engineering excellence
• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics.

Your Expertise:

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features, ideally related to messaging platform and products
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depends on the situation
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent

Offices: United States