
Software Engineer – Guest & Host
Airbnb
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
- Employee Travel Credits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaKotlinScalaHTMLCSSReactGraphQLservice-oriented architecturearchitectural patternsengineering best practices
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsproject managementstakeholder alignmentcommunicationself-driventimelines managementremoving roadblockscraftsmanshipcollaboration
Certifications
BS in computer scienceMS in computer sciencePh.D. in computer science