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.
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The Difference You Will Make:
- Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products.
- Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions for Hotels products.
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps.
- Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices.
- Hands-on development, including design and code reviews.
- Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors.
A Typical Day:
- Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term.
- Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on the technical vision and product requirements.
- Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions.
- Work closely with other Senior leaders to define and drive northstar architectures / frameworks and long-term technical strategy that can be leveraged across the broader organization.
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations.
- Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills.
Your Expertise:
- 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
- Experience building, leading, and architecting full-stack products and systems at enterprise-scale with broad impact.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, ability to set technical direction and strategy and work cross functionally with Product, Design and Data Science teams.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall hosting architecture and product/design capabilities.
- Extensive experience with Java, Python and or other programming languages.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Your Location:
Remote- USA
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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.