Senior Software Engineer - Community Support Engineering

The Community You Will Join:

Community Support (CS) has increasingly become a key driver of enabling Airbnb's core business. Community Support Engineering is responsible for the world-class technology architecture and solutions that power CS at Airbnb. The products and capabilities we build empower our guests and hosts CS agents and operations teams around the world. As a member of CSP in China you will have a great opportunity to make lasting impacts on the Airbnb CS user experience.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer who is passionate about making a difference through their work. As a Senior Software Engineer you will be the technical lead in a team of talented and diverse software engineers leading the project execution to improve Airbnb customers and agents experience. You will work in a flexible engineering model to support a broader range of initiatives across Community Support (CS) products and capabilities globally.

A Typical Day:

• Work cross-functionally with product design and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build novel products and features

• Drive lead and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design development test experimentation analysis and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs giving feedback on product specs and mocks.

• 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 advice/mentor other engineers

• When you are the POC of the projects drive the delivery communicate the status to stakeholders and ensure the overall quality

• Advocate and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations.

• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of full stack software development experience

• Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Scala/Ruby on Rails/Python).

• Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React Preact Angular Next Vue or Meteor.

• Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.

• Exposure to architectural patterns of large high-scale web applications such as well-designed APIs high volume data pipelines and efficient algorithms.

• Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution.

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented.

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree preferably in CS or equivalent experience.

• Fluent communication in both English and Chinese.

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.

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.