Senior Backend Software Engineer - Marketplaces & Intelligence Data & AI

The Community You Will Join:

The Marketplaces & Intelligence Data & AI team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. The team provides rich high-quality data assets to power insights that enable Airbnb and our hosts to be competitive in our marketplaces. The team is composed of Engineers specializing in Data Analytics Backend and Machine Learning and we work closely with a wide range of teams across the company including Data Science Strategic Finance and Sales Operations and Product Engineering in order to see our work through to business impact.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer you will work in a team of engineers with diverse expertise to build foundational data sets that power insights for the company and our host community. You will play an end-to-end role in scoping new functionality aligning with stakeholders on technical requirements and implementation of these features.

A Typical Day:

• Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with finance operations and data science partners to define and ship impactful features.

• Present product and technical deep dives to key stakeholders.

• Architect and implement scalable high-quality and high-traffic products (or systems)

• Drive alignment manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders

• Write unit and integration tests; review other’s code

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Strong expertise in one or more back-end  languages (Python/Java/Kotlin/etc.)

• Ability to drive alignment and manage projects with stakeholders.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions

• Able to self-serve on data analysis and make data-driven decisions

• Desire to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible you must live in a state where Airbnb Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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: [email protected] . 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.