Software Engineer, Guest & Host

The Cities Team at Airbnb is chartered with driving sustainable global growth by developing the necessary software systems to enable Airbnb to work effectively with local governments.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building the tools and systems to scale regulatory launches worldwide with a focus on supply growth and retention. You will design and build product and platform features to achieve our goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with global cross-functional stakeholders for product alignment, requirements and shaping specifications
• Build our features and platforms for high-scale and reliability and employing engineering best practices
• Foster a culture of craftsmanship that emphasizes both the successful delivery of business initiatives and a commitment to quality
• Strategising and brainstorming opportunities along with Product, Partnerships & other cross-functional leaders and driving effective relevant metrics to measure the success of these initiatives.
• Support 24x7 engineering ops to maintain high reliability services

Requirements:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of relevant engineering work experience
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Proficiency in one or more JVM based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.) are preferred
• Familiar with frontend web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React and Graphql etc)
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Successfully partnering with Operations, Policy, Legal, and Product functions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to structure complex, ambiguous problems, identify patterns, and propose data-driven solutions.
• Self-driven with strong project management abilities.
• Ability to drive end-to-end initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing timelines, and proactively removing roadblocks for high-quality outcomes in fast-moving environments.

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.