The team is developing a supply moderation platform that allows us to offer product solutions to 1000+ Operation specialists around the world that are based on our policy objectives. Our long-term goal is to be able to launch a solution in any city with minimal to no engineering effort.
What You’ll Do
You will work with a team of talented, passionate, mission-driven developers and a diverse set of partners and stakeholders across product, design, data science, policy, operations, and legal disciplines.
Your contributions will take a variety of forms, including:
- Building a long-term moderation platform with well-defined APIs that is service-oriented, modular, granular, observable, configurable, and efficient
- Creating highly-automated, auditable, access-controlled tools for Airbnb compliance managers to address off-platform compliance issues
- Designing intuitive experiences for hosts that make it simple for them to learn about and comply with the Airbnb’s policies
What You’ll Need to Succeed- 6+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or a related domain
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
- Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
- Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/C#/C++/etc.)
- Expertise in popular storage systems such as relational or noSQL databases
- Ability to write high-performance production-quality code
- Willingness to work across the stack to address technical challenges anywhere in the system
- Experience in designing and building large-scale production systems
- Knowledge of SOA (service-oriented architecture) design patterns
- Success at mentoring others and leading by example
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, bias for action, and the ability to tackle ambiguous problems
- Desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, policy, operations, and legal partners