Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Checkout team as a Staff Software Engineer and lead the development and refinement of major subsystems powering the booking checkout process. You will leverage your expertise in distributed systems and business workflows to transform the checkout ecosystem. As a Staff Engineer, you'll establish a technical vision and deliver flexible, scalable, and reliable solutions. You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and apply critical judgment to data to improve the team and product. This remote US-based role offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. The position requires significant experience in software development and a strong technical leadership background.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Experience building services that enable high-scale, performant client applications
• Strong coding abilities (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) and experience with architectural patterns of large application-driven products
• Demonstrated expertise and be hands-on in architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture
• 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

• Lead checkout engineering projects to improve the end user experience, system reliability and performance
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors — both inside and outside your immediate team
• Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended foundational technical problems without clearly-known solutions
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners within our team, the larger organization, and our partners in teams such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions
• Apply critical judgment to data — be it about performance, business metrics, or team processes — and use it to inform your work to improve the team and the product
• Steer end-to-end product with Product Managers, Design, and UX by engaging early and often to guide teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits