Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer – Guest & Host, Partner Integrations

Airbnb

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Contribute directly to company growth in new areas as we explore partnerships outside of Airbnb.
  • Lead projects end-to-end – from working with partners directly, to clicking that launch button.
  • Identify patterns that allow us to scale new partnerships quickly in the future.
  • Have attention to detail about the user experience.
  • Design, write and test new APIs and integrations with partners.
  • Write documents to propose, align and document changes to the system.
  • Debug external integrations and join the team on-call rotation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers, and directly with external partners.
  • Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction.
  • Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience
  • Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
  • Experience leading projects
  • Previous experience working with third party API’s is a plus.
  • Previous experience with authentication or secure signing mechanisms is a plus.
  • Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality.
  • Good judgment in making and communicating tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
  • High sense of user empathy and the ability to identify and solve for user needs and friction.
  • End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization.
Benefits
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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