Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Marketing Technology team as a Senior Staff Engineer and play a critical role in building and maintaining a state-of-the-art platform for effective marketing campaigns. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Data/Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers. A typical day involves working with design and product partners to understand user journeys, collaborating with senior leaders on technical strategy, establishing engineering best practices, implementing system components, understanding how technical decisions impact business outcomes, performing code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. This role requires 12+ years of relevant experience in a fast-paced tech environment, experience building full-stack products, demonstrated technical leadership, strong communication skills, and expertise in Java, Python, or other programming languages. The position is remote-eligible within the USA, with occasional office work or offsite attendance.

Requirements

• 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Experience building, leading, and architecting full-stack products and systems at enterprise-scale with broad impact
• Demonstrated technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, ability to set technical direction and strategy and work cross functionally with Product, Design and Data Science teams
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall hosting architecture and product/design capabilities
• Strong prototyping / engineering spiking skills
• Extensive experience with Java, Python and or other programming languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work with design and product partners to understand user journeys and requirements and rapidly prototype / explore potential solutions to Host problems
• Work closely with other Senior leaders to define and drive northstar architectures / frameworks and long-term technical strategy that can be leveraged across the broader Marketing Technology organization
• Establish best practices for engineering and help build an awesome tech culture in MarTech
• Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation
• Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
• Perform design and code reviews and up-level other engineers at Airbnb

Benefits

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