Engineer Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's Hotels organization as an Engineering Leader and lead the planning and delivery of new features for their Hotels line of business. Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence. Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering leaders. A typical day involves roadmap execution, feature delivery, and team management. This remote-eligible position requires 3-5+ years of engineering team management experience and 9+ years of software development experience. The role offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team
• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features
• Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering planning and delivery of a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities powering Airbnb’s Hotels line of business
• Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
• Work closely with product managers, designers and other engineering leaders to plan and deliver a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities
• Mentor and empower senior ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations
• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute the roadmap
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and platform capabilities
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success
• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits