Staff Software Engineer - Guest & Host

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high-quality experiences for our outstanding community of Hosts and Guests.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for a product-focused Staff Backend Software Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems 

• Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy

• Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture

• Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop new host pricing functionality

• Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hand-ons implementation of those solutions

• Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing

• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews

• Mentor and grow more junior engineers.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years industry experience

• You have experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products

• You have experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams

• You are excited to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction

• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams

• You have demonstrated an ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices

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.