Airbnb Senior Backend Engineer Media Foundation 

United States 

949843301

A Typical Day:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• You possess strong software skills in Java.
Media processing or video transcoding experience is a must.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering, product & design organizations
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale is a plus.
• Experience working with video protocols and modern video codecs is a plus.