Senior Software Engineer, Insurance Engineering - Growth

The Community You Will Join:

The Insurance Engineering team builds unique products to address the protection needs of the Airbnb community. Our vision is to create one-of-a-kind protection programs for our hosts and guests to provide financial security and peace of mind.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will work in a team of talented and diverse software engineers to help us expand our market share and drive revenue for existing protection products. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and delivering flexible efficient and scalable solutions. Each individual brings their own unique skill set experiences thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Build and launch high-impact experiments using data-informed decision-making.

• Participate in cross-functional initiatives and experiment reviews to understand customer needs.

• Work closely with design product data science and engineering partners in all phases of software development from architecture to implementation testing and on-call.

• Drive lead and contribute to the framework and tooling development to support fast-paced large scale experimentation. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs giving feedback on product specs and mocks.

• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design through code review to production operations

Your Expertise:

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

• 5+ years of software development experience preferably as a full-stack engineer.

• Proficiency in at least one modern general programming language especially a JVM language.

• Experience with front-end and back-end development including GraphQL.

• Familiarity with growth engineering concepts such as A/B testing funnel analysis and customer segmentation.

• Strong coding skills with a solid understanding of data structures asynchronous programming and engineering best practices

• Proven ability to architect and develop solutions for ambiguous problems and integrations across multiple teams.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills especially in cross-functional teams and with non-technical stakeholders

• Comfortable leading technical initiatives contributing to roadmaps and solving ambiguous challenges

• Motivated to mentor and improve team productivity through code reviews and architecture discussions

Bonus Expertise:

• Prior experience in a startup or fast-paced environment with a focus on rapid iteration and experimentation.

• Experience with experimentation platforms native app development for iOS or Android and automated testing frameworks and tools.

Relevant Links:

• Tech Talk: Adopting GraphQL at Airbnb

• Blog: Use of GraphQL and Apollo at Airbnb

• We value leveraging and giving back to the open source community (http://airbnb.io)

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.