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Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search Input

Airbnb

Full-time
USA
$185k-$223k per year
software engineering
engineer
recruiting
java
android
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The Community You Will Join:

  • Airbnb’s Search Input team is responsible for the front-door to Airbnb’s guest product and search experience. The team aims to help users express their trip intents & preferences easily, surface dynamic & recommended filters adapting to what users need, and help them navigate Airbnb’s app and site to find the ideal listings for their trip.

  • The team works on a number of highly impactful surfaces across Airbnb’s Search and key product pages, such as the delivery of innovative product features like Airbnb Rooms, Airbnb Categories, along with new & exciting Filter additions.

  • The team is cross-discipline with expertise in iOS, Android, web and backend development and highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, creative, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We also work closely with other engineering teams on Search and Foundation to enable engineers to develop more efficiently, create improvements that make the product more performant and configurable, and build architecture that’s scalable and robust.

The Difference You Will Make:

  • Develop new, highly-impact product features on Airbnb’s search and other high-traffic surfaces. 

  • Work closely with cross functional partners in design, product, marketing, and data science to bring new features from design to production.

  • Prototype new features to collect feedback and iterate on to reach ideal product solutions for Airbnb guests.

  • Effectively advise stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of complex product requirements.

  • Write technical specifications for new features and systems.

  • Provide mentorship to junior team members to support their career and technical growth.

A Typical Day: 

  • Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required. 

  • Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design, and review and evaluate it with partner teams.

  • Create and implement the technical design and code for a key initiative that enables impactful features/products on Airbnb’s search product.

  • Review a team member’s technical design for an upcoming feature and provide feedback on implementations via code review.

  • Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship features efficiently and  improve product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Search organization.

Your Expertise:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend/full-stack development.

  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

  • In-depth experience working in Java and/or Kotlin within a microservice architecture at scale.

  • Passion for efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality.

  • Passion for design and UX, with a focus on building user-centric products.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work well within a large engineering organization as well as cross functionally.

  • Enthusiastic about code reviews and architecture discussions, actively contributing to improve teammates’ productivity.

  • Experience working on a product team or customer-centric software for a medium to large engineering organization.

  • [Bonus] Experience developing products with complex interactive UIs across multiple client platforms.

  • [Bonus] Experience developing on iOS, Android, or Web.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

About the job

Full-time
USA
$185k-$223k per year
5 Applicants
Posted 7 months ago
software engineering
engineer
recruiting
java
android
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Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search Input

Airbnb
The job listing has expired. Unfortunately, the hiring company is no longer accepting new applications.

To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs

The Community You Will Join:

  • Airbnb’s Search Input team is responsible for the front-door to Airbnb’s guest product and search experience. The team aims to help users express their trip intents & preferences easily, surface dynamic & recommended filters adapting to what users need, and help them navigate Airbnb’s app and site to find the ideal listings for their trip.

  • The team works on a number of highly impactful surfaces across Airbnb’s Search and key product pages, such as the delivery of innovative product features like Airbnb Rooms, Airbnb Categories, along with new & exciting Filter additions.

  • The team is cross-discipline with expertise in iOS, Android, web and backend development and highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, creative, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We also work closely with other engineering teams on Search and Foundation to enable engineers to develop more efficiently, create improvements that make the product more performant and configurable, and build architecture that’s scalable and robust.

The Difference You Will Make:

  • Develop new, highly-impact product features on Airbnb’s search and other high-traffic surfaces. 

  • Work closely with cross functional partners in design, product, marketing, and data science to bring new features from design to production.

  • Prototype new features to collect feedback and iterate on to reach ideal product solutions for Airbnb guests.

  • Effectively advise stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of complex product requirements.

  • Write technical specifications for new features and systems.

  • Provide mentorship to junior team members to support their career and technical growth.

A Typical Day: 

  • Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required. 

  • Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design, and review and evaluate it with partner teams.

  • Create and implement the technical design and code for a key initiative that enables impactful features/products on Airbnb’s search product.

  • Review a team member’s technical design for an upcoming feature and provide feedback on implementations via code review.

  • Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship features efficiently and  improve product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Search organization.

Your Expertise:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend/full-stack development.

  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

  • In-depth experience working in Java and/or Kotlin within a microservice architecture at scale.

  • Passion for efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality.

  • Passion for design and UX, with a focus on building user-centric products.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work well within a large engineering organization as well as cross functionally.

  • Enthusiastic about code reviews and architecture discussions, actively contributing to improve teammates’ productivity.

  • Experience working on a product team or customer-centric software for a medium to large engineering organization.

  • [Bonus] Experience developing products with complex interactive UIs across multiple client platforms.

  • [Bonus] Experience developing on iOS, Android, or Web.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

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