Airbnb Staff Fullstack Software Engineer Search 

United States 

420160775

The Community You Will Join:

• Airbnb’s Storefronts team is responsible for the front door of Airbnb’s search product. The team works on high impact surfaces across Airbnb’s homepage, categories, and Experiences products and aims to inspire our guests to explore and discover the best Stays and Experiences on Airbnb. Some of the team’s past projects include launching and .
• The team is cross-discipline with expertise in iOS, Android, web and backend development and works closely with other search teams, platform teams, and partners in design, product, and data science to deliver new search experiences for Airbnb’s guests.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Drive the team’s technical strategy and alignment with Search teams as well as infrastructure, relevance, and client foundation partners to enable development of new features for Airbnb search.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of our systems and the broader Search team’s velocity working in them.
• Evaluate design explorations and provide input on technical feasibility. Identify future capabilities required to support product needs and align with partner teams to deliver key foundations and enable the next generation of search product features at Airbnb.
• Provide mentorship to junior and senior team members to support their career and technical growth.

A Typical Day:

• Host a review of the team’s foundation goals and technical roadmap with partners across search to get feedback and align projects and goals across the group.
• Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required. Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design and evaluate it with partner teams.
• Deliver the technical design and code for a key foundational initiative to enable multiple features/products on Airbnb’s search product.
• Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship and maintain product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Airbnb engineering organization.
• Maintain health of Airbnb’s systems by leading incident response, monitoring trends over time and delivering steady improvements Airbnb’s systems.
• Review a team member’s technical design for an upcoming feature and provide feedback on implementations via code review

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience working in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Proficiency in one or more client platforms: iOS (preferred!), Android, or Web.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, and technical quality.
• Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within a large engineering organization as well as cross functionally.
• Strong collaboration via code reviews and architecture discussions, and motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
• Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale.
• Experience working on a product engineering team or customer-centric platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization.
• [Bonus] Experience developing products with complex UIs using motion and or video