Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's CRM Engineering team as an Engineering Manager, leading senior engineers in building and improving community and policy platforms. You will collaborate with product managers and designers to deliver new features for Airbnb messaging. Responsibilities include roadmap execution, feature delivery, system health maintenance, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence. The ideal candidate possesses 3-5+ years of engineering team management experience and 9+ years of software development experience. Strong backend system building expertise and excellent communication skills are essential. This US-remote eligible position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 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
• 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 depends 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

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute roadmap
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and platform capabilities
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success
• Nurture a culture of engineering excellence
• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics

Benefits

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