Careers Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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.
Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.
About HotelTonight
Launched in 2011 and acquired by Airbnb in 2019, HotelTonight is a stand-alone hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless booking and exceptional deals at top hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory.
About Hotels at Airbnb
Launched in 2011 and acquired by Airbnb in 2019, HotelTonight is a stand-alone hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless booking and exceptional deals at top hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory.
HotelTonight is a part of the Airbnb family. The hotels team at Airbnb is responsible for taking HotelTonight into new directions and scale. The Airbnb platform also has hotel listings and the hotels team develops systems that help the Airbnb ecosystem have a wide selection of accommodation choices for our guests and the most effective tools for hosts to onboard, manage and thrive on Airbnb.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in backend engineering and a passion for building a next generation Hospitality & Booking Platform that our guests and hotel partners love. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a fun, entrepreneurial, start-up team where you can have outsized impact -- all under the Airbnb umbrella.
In this role you will work on everything backend related including: ensuring high availability and speed of our APIs, helping scale industry-changing products, building security and anti-fraud solutions, implementing connectivity to our partners, and taking our infrastructure to the next level. Our tech stack is built on Java, Ruby/Rails, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres and more.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver guest & hotel partner facing features
- Ensure high availability, scalability and speed of our backend
- Evaluating, identifying & defining improvements to the existing infrastructure
- Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout
- Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the HotelTonight platform
- Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs
- Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack
- Mentor and support other engineers in the team and related teams
Minimum Requirements
- 7+ years of experience
- Problem solver - able to evaluate technical approaches to problems and provide viable alternative solutions
- Communicator - clearly and effectively communicate with senior stakeholders
- Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and key/value stores
- Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems in previous positions
- Experience with server driven UI architectures, patterns, and API design
- Strong project scoping and project management skills
- Ability to mentor other engineers on the team.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.