Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Listings Platform 

United States 

91252154

A Typical Day:

As a lead member of the technical staff on the team, the person will be

• Lead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for serving listing product flows and listing data.
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps.
• Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable.
• Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards building highly scalable systems.
• Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains.
• Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features.
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross-functionally with Product and Data Science teams
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.
• Willing to work across the full stack to address technical challenges anywhere in the system.
• Experience with working in a cross-functional team that touches many of the core systems and user flows at Airbnb.
• Proficiency in one or more backend server languages (Java/Kotlin)
• Experiences with AWS/Aurora or equivalent storage systems
• Experiences with Api Modeling in GraphQL preferred
• Experiences with ElasticSearch a plus