Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Partner Ecosystem team as a Senior Software Engineer and drive company growth by exploring solutions outside Airbnb. Lead cross-team projects, mentor other engineers, and identify solutions to improve technical and product engineering excellence. You will design, build, and launch APIs and integrations with internal and external partners, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Build large-scale, efficient, and reliable backend solutions. This remote-eligible position requires 6+ years of software engineering experience and expertise in scalable architectures and project leadership. The role offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Experience leading projects
• Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
• 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

Responsibilities

• Drive the company growth as it explores solutions outside Airbnb
• Lead cross-team projects end-to-end
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Design, build and launch APIs and integrations with our internal and external partners
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers to deliver high quality products
• Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable
• Mentor team members who have less experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working with third party API’s
• Previous experience with chatbot/AI product

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits