[Hiring] Software Engineer, Guest & Host, Foundation @Airbnb

Role Description

The Community You Will Join:

• The Engineering team is responsible for developing the Airbnb app and building products.
• We are a remote team based in different cities in China, and we meet up in person regularly to collaborate, connect and celebrate.

The Difference You Will Make:

• As a Software Engineer in the Global markets Foundation team, you will work closely with PMs, designers, data scientists, and engineers across global teams to build the foundation for Airbnb.
• You will be responsible for improving the foundation of the product from engineering efficiency, consistency, and quality.
• You will work on projects that can span multiple areas: foundation, traffic, and data.
• This is a small team that provides its ICs with the opportunity to either go broad and influence all foundation-wise development at Airbnb, or to go deep and improve the ways of working on a single platform.

A Typical Day:

• Build services and APIs to drive existing and new features for web and mobile apps.
• Work with data scientists and business analysts to define, capture, and use real-time event data for business insights and product features.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to participate in, validate, and evolve how we build, test, and deploy code in a distributed Service-Oriented Architecture.
• Alter existing and develop new data access and protection patterns to ensure our community’s personal data is safe and secure, at scale.
• Maintain the cloud infrastructure, specifically for Airbnb guests based in China.
• Opportunity to work with nearly every team in the company to surface their product functionality in our customer support tools.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of industry experience as Backend or Full-Stack Engineer with a BS/Masters or no years of experience with a PhD.
• Experience in building tools for internal use.
• Work experience, open-source code, or coursework in any of the following languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Javascript / TypeScript.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Experience with web development best practices such as A/B testing, continuous integration.
• Understanding of data structures and problem-solving approaches, and ability to articulate trade-offs.
• Passion for creating a highly effective technology platform for our growing global workforce.
• Be future looking; we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long term.
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.
• Focus on building high-quality products; every one of our flows affects the business bottom line.
• Data-driven in how you solve problems and validate you've solved them correctly.
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.
• [Bonus] Frontend development experience is a big bonus.

Your Location

• This position is China - Remote Eligible.
• The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
• Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.