Senior Software Engineer, Cities - Regulatory Platform & Operations Team

The Community You Will Join:

The Cities team serves guests, hosts and regulators to ensure successful global compliance with local regulations. Our mission is to scalably sustain nights booked and growth rate in tens of thousands of cities to meet STR regulation around the globe. 

• The team is responsible for defining the long-term vision of regulation with governments globally.

  • We own the end-to-end host experience on regulation registration flow, as well as the downstream enforcement mechanisms to help Airbnb comply with regulations. 

  • We own the government-facing product - the City Portal –  from end to end, establish relationships with governments around the world.

• The team is also responsible for the critical platform services which support tier 0/1 flows on Airbnb. 

  • We own registration products, LVF, requirement services and nightcap platform which feeds data to critical pages such as PDP and Host Calendar etc.

The Difference You Will Make:

Your day-to-day responsibilities includes:

• Join a talented group of engineers, work with senior and staff engineers closely on high impact technical initiatives to keep Airbnb business scalable, performant and reliable.

• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers, policy, legal and operation partners to design and deliver high-quality products

• Build great relationships between Airbnb and governments, which is critical to companies in the sharing economy.

• Drive development with next generation technologies, to build efficient and reusable web components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable solutions 

• Optimize user experience of product to extend Airbnb’s core functionality and improve existing features and build new features for a web-based application 

• Help set up and lead working group sessions, collaborate on current and upcoming projects including proposal and design doc reviews, roadmap planning, etc.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years industry experience

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

• Passion and quick on learning. Strong communication skill is a must. Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities

• Experience building in large web applications using Javascript/Typescript/Java/Kotlin. Fluency in HTML, CSS, and related web technologies  (e.g. React, graphql)

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, indexing and associated trade-offs. Familiarity with Elasticsearch and the streaming is a plus.

 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.