Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host, Global Markets

About Airbnb

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

This role should be based in China Mainland. No Relocation and Visa Support.

The Community You Will Join

The Global Markets engineering team is focusing on evolving our guest and host experience for global markets through new product initiatives to accelerate international growth. Expanding in under-penetrated global markets is a key pillar of our company’s growth strategy. To achieve this, we want to innovate in every sense of the world and adapt our product to every corner of the globe. We want every user in each of our 220+ countries and regions to feel right at home.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host, Global Markets, you will work closely with PMs, designers, data scientists and engineers across global teams to build products for Airbnb guests. You will work on projects that can span multiple areas, landing, search, pre-booking flow, etc. You will develop and evolve the pricing, promotion and discount strategies to maximize business impact and customer value across all markets.

A Typical Day

• Work with cross functional partners to understand product requirements and translate them into technical solutions, help create the roadmap for the projects
• Discuss and align technical specifications and implementation details with other engineers, including cross-team engineers from Global
• Write clean, testable and maintainable code to implement the features
• Perform tech design and code reviews and advise/mentor other engineers
• Drive the delivery, communicate the status to stakeholders and ensure the overall quality

Your Expertise

• 6+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale system/product (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Extensive experience working with open-source code, or coursework in any of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Javascript / TypeScript.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• 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.
• Fluent in both Chinese and English

Key skills/competency

• Java
• Kotlin
• Python
• Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• High-scale system architecture
• API design
• Data pipelines
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Product development
• Internationalization
• Pricing strategies
• Code review
• Technical leadership
• Data-driven problem solving