Staff Software Engineer - Insurance Engineering

The Community You Will Join:

The Insurance Engineering team builds unique products to address the protection needs of the Airbnb community. Our vision is to create one-of-a-kind protection programs for our hosts and guests to provide financial security and peace of mind. 

The Difference You Will Make:

You will work in a team of talented and diverse software engineers to help us meet this challenge with innovative solutions that enable business agility, efficiency, and accuracy. You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Be the technical lead and owner of significant scope, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution

• Work with cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams

• Be a player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence

• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution

• 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.

• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

• 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience

• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/Rust/Ruby/C++/etc.)

• Extensive experience working with GraphQL

• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.

• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).

• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.

• Familiarity with growth engineering concepts, such as A/B testing, funnel analysis, and customer segmentation.

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

• Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy

• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams 

• Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers

Relevant Links:

• Tech Talk: Adopting GraphQL at Airbnb

• Blog: Use of GraphQL and Apollo at Airbnb

• We value leveraging and giving back to the open source community (http://airbnb.io)

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.