Senior Software Engineer - Core Services (i18n)

The Difference You Will Make:

The Internationalization team (i18n team) aims to foster global belonging and offer the best localization experience by providing reliable, efficient, scalable, and extensible globalization infrastructure and tooling for Airbnb code, content, and stakeholders. In Bytelevel Research’s 2022 Globalization Report Card, Airbnb ranked #3 among the top 150 global companies, and #1 (for three years in a row) among all companies in the Travel & Hospitality sector.

The I18n team is a part of the Core Services org within Infrastructure and works closely with our broader Globalization business org to contribute directly to top-line goals as well as make the entire engineering organization more productive. We are infrastructure engineers with a human focus: customer-centric, quality driven, helpful and empathetic.

A Typical Day: 

Millions of users across the world engage with the Airbnb app in their preferred languages every day. As an engineer on the i18n Infrastructure team, you will be critical to the continued success and broad appeal of Airbnb. In this role, you will have an opportunity to:

• Build intuitive workflows and tools to serve the needs of our stakeholders, business partners, and end users

• Drive down costs and land efficiency wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades

• Work cross-functionally with partners in Globalization, Data Science, product teams, and external vendors

• Build scalable systems supporting high qps realtime translation requests and efficient retrieval of translated content

• Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization

We’re looking for engineers who:

• Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact

• Love collaborating via product reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions

• Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity

• Will be owners and stewards of Airbnb’s multilingual capabilities

Your Expertise:

• 5-9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters and 2+ years with a PhD, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience

• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript / Typescript, and related web technologies

• Fluency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/C++/etc)

• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React and GraphQL)

• Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms

• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners