Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Guest & Host 

United States 

766739204

A Typical Day:

• Own and deliver guest & hotel partner facing features
• Ensure high availability, scalability and speed of our backend systems.
• Evaluating, identifying & defining improvements to the existing infrastructure. Drive long term technical roadmap for the team.
• Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout
• Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the HotelTonight platform
• Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs
• Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack
• Mentor and support other engineers in the team and related teams

Your Expertise:

• 6+ years experience with Java or Ruby
• Problem solver - able to evaluate technical approaches to problems and provide viable alternative solutions
• Communicator - clearly and effectively communicate with senior stakeholders
• Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and key/value stores
• Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems in previous positions
• Experience with server driven UI architectures, patterns, and API design
• Strong project scoping and project management skills
• Ability to mentor other engineers on the team.

Offices: United States