Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's Guest Displays & Platforms team as an Engineering Manager and lead the planning and delivery of new and improved guest-facing features. You will build and mentor a strong engineering team, ensuring high technical quality throughout the development process. This role requires extensive experience in engineering management and software development, with expertise in both backend and client systems. The position is US-remote eligible, with occasional office work or offsites. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Expertise with both backend and client (iOS, Android, Web) systems in large-scale consumer applications
• Excellent communication and presentation skills tuned for both technical or non-technical audiences
• End-to-end, product-oriented mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively and find common ground with a wide range of teams who may have conflicting goals and priorities

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering planning and delivery of a wide range of new and improved guest-facing features and capabilities powering Airbnb’s core lines 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 with product, design and other stakeholders to determine and document requirements
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and capabilities
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain product quality and system health
• Distill and communicate deliverable plans and celebrate shipping
• 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