Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Insurance Engineering team as a technical lead, building innovative protection programs for hosts and guests. You will be responsible for leading significant projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. This role requires extensive backend development experience, proficiency in GraphQL, and experience with large-scale applications. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/Rust/Ruby/C++/etc.)
• Extensive experience working with GraphQL
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication
• Familiarity with growth engineering concepts, such as A/B testing, funnel analysis, and customer segmentation
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners
• Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers

Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead and owner of significant scope, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution
• Work with cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits