Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Insurance Engineering – Growth 

United States 

806563120

The Difference You Will Make:

You will work in a team of talented and diverse software engineers to help us expand our market share and drive revenue for existing protection products. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and delivering flexible, efficient and scalable solutions. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Build and launch high-impact experiments using data-informed decision-making.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives and experiment reviews to understand customer needs.
• Work closely with design, product, data science, and engineering partners in all phases of software development, from architecture to implementation, testing, and on-call.
• Drive, lead, and contribute to the framework and tooling development to support fast-paced, large scale experimentation. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software development experience, preferably as a full-stack engineer.
• Proficiency in at least one modern, general programming language, especially a JVM language.
• Experience with front-end and back-end development, including GraphQL.
• Familiarity with growth engineering concepts, such as A/B testing, funnel analysis, and customer segmentation.
• Strong coding skills, with a solid understanding of data structures, asynchronous programming, and engineering best practices
• Proven ability to architect and develop solutions for ambiguous problems and integrations across multiple teams.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, especially in cross-functional teams and with non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable leading technical initiatives, contributing to roadmaps, and solving ambiguous challenges
• Motivated to mentor and improve team productivity through code reviews and architecture discussions

• Prior experience in a startup or fast-paced environment, with a focus on rapid iteration and experimentation.
• Experience with experimentation platforms, native app development for iOS or Android, and automated testing frameworks and tools.

• We value leveraging and giving back to the open source community (http://airbnb.io)

Offices: United States