Airbnb Backend Staff Software Engineer Trip 

United States 

669229396

The Community You Will Join:

• Airbnb’s On Trip and Wishlist teams are responsible for providing Guests a seamless journey from trip planning to trip end.
• Product surfaces include Wishlists, Trips tab, and Airbnb’s connected smart lock solution
• The team is cross-discipline with expertise in iOS, Android, Web, and backend development. We work closely with our partners in design, product, data science, and marketing to deliver a cohesive journey for our Guests in the Airbnb app

The Difference You Will Make:

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture
• Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
• Cross-collaborate across engineering to build new features holistically

A Typical Day:

• Work across engineering, product, and design to deliver features in the Trips and Wishlist space for Guests and Hosts
• Plan, share, align, and execute technical solutions
• Prototype, facilitate feedback, iterate, and deliver product features and improvements
• Foster an engineering environment of quality code, relevant documentation, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend development.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
• Passionate about design and UX sensibilities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions
• Love collaborating via code reviews, architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale
• [Bonus] Experience working on a Product team or customer-centric software supporting a medium to large engineering organization
• [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s need

Offices: United States