Careers 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.
Fluency in English and Chinese is required.
The Community You Will Join:
The Global Markets tech 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:
We are looking for a product focused Staff Software Engineer to help us drive innovative initiatives for our regional guests. At the Staff level, our Engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.
A Typical Day:
Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality productsLead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for international markets
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
- Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team
Your Expertise
- 10+ years industry experience
- You have experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products
- You have experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams
- You are excited to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- You have demonstrated an ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices
Offices: China