Description
We're looking for a data-focused Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts.
As a Staff 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.
Your expertise will be crucial in exploring problem spaces, devising solutions to customer problems, and influencing product strategy.
In this role, you will:
- Work with product and ML engineers 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 backend to support data and AI solutions
- Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hands-on 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
If you have 10+ years of industry experience, experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products, and influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.
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.