Software Engineer, Guest & Host

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. The Community You Will Join: The Airbnb Hotels organization, which includes HotelTonight, is a fun, entrepreneurial, start-up team where you can have outsized impact. Simplicity is at the core of our products. We pride ourselves on delivering the smoothest and most intuitive hotel booking experience. For hotels, we make it easy to drive incremental bookings so they can focus on the craft of hosting. We aspire to facilitate hotel discovery and serendipity at scale, benefitting guests and hotel partners. As a Software engineer, you will be responsible for building the tools and systems to scale hotels launches worldwide with a focus on supply growth. You will design and build product and platform features to achieve our goals. You will help define and maintain a culture of craftsmanship and excellence. You will represent the engineering team with global cross-functional partners. A Typical Day: Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to understand requirements, prioritize work, and scope projects within your team’s roadmap. Build services and new APIs to hotel tools and onboarding workflows Write clean, testable, and maintainable code to build backend services and platform capabilities. Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to operational excellence by improving runbooks, monitoring, and rollback readiness. Your Expertise: 3+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend/full-stack development. Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience. Proficiency in one or more JVM-based languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala. Experience building backend systems or services in a service-oriented or distributed systems environment. Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 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: View email address on click.appcast.io . 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. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. #J-18808-Ljbffr airbnb, Inc.