Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Community Support Platform 

United States 

924312891

The Difference You Will Make:

As Staff Engineer, you will work in a team of talented and diverse software engineers to build solutions that improve Airbnb agent productivity. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, efficient and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build novel products and features
• Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Strong expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Experience with frontend or full stack development
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering, product & design organizations
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Love for collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s/PhD degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience