Deliver useful, personalized new features for Airbnb’s homepage; enabling guests around the world to find places to stay and more on Airbnb.
Support new, growing products on Airbnb’s global platform like Airbnb Experiences and Services.
Contribute to technical improvements that make the team’s products higher quality and increase the team’s velocity.
Develop new APIs to power interfaces that enable users to navigate and discover new Airbnb products.
Contribute to improving performance and robustness of backend services and architecture powering Airbnb’s homepage & search alongside other search product engineering teams.
Contribute to development of new product features and experiences with a cross-discipline group of engineers
Use AI tools to develop new features for Airbnb’s guests and tools for the Airbnb team to move faster.
Work closely with cross functional partners in design, product, marketing, and data science to bring new features from design to production.

Requirements

4+ years of software engineering experience
Developing backend applications and APIs in Java
Working in distributed systems & microservice architectures
Service monitoring and alerting techniques
Product sense to balance technical and product requirements to develop quality experiences for users
Collaboration skills with cross functional and non-technical partners
Willing to embrace challenges and changes with a positive attitude
Nice to have: Experience working in with GraphQL, Kotlin, Thrift IDL, and server driven architectures

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaAPIsbackend applicationsdistributed systemsmicroservice architecturesservice monitoringalerting techniquesGraphQLKotlinThrift IDL

Soft Skills

collaborationproduct sensepositive attitudeembracing challengesworking with non-technical partners