Senior Software Engineer, Reputation

Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer contributing to the development of review solutions for Airbnb's reputation platform. Collaborating across teams to improve user experience through efficient backend systems.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $196,000 - $227,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaKotlinNoSQLRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality products.
Create paved paths and best practices within the reviews, standards, and insights space.
Define technical strategy and lead the architecture, build, and launch of solutions for serving reviews flows and providing data to our users.
Work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth.
Influence and align stakeholders across teams and organizations on technical direction, goals, and roadmaps.
Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable.
Collaborate with team members and cross functional partners to define product definitions and roadmaps

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains.
Proven track record of defining technical direction and owning architecture for large-scale, complex production systems.
Ability to drive technical strategy and make architectural decisions that span multiple teams and systems.
Experience mentoring and growing engineers, and influencing technical decisions across teams and organizations.
Experience with service oriented architecture.
Experience with Agentic Coding tools
Proficiency in one or more backend server languages (Ruby/Java/Kotlin), and in popular storage systems such as relational databases, NoSQL and caching.
Breadth of knowledge in reviews and metrics domain is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringinformation technologytechnical strategyarchitecturebackend server languagesRubyJavaKotlinrelational databasesNoSQL

Soft Skills

collaborationinfluencementoringpersonal growthstakeholder alignment