Staff Fullstack Engineer - Reservation Management at Airbnb United States

Staff Fullstack Engineer - Reservation Management job at Airbnb. United States. The Community You Will Join We have multiple positions available within the Reservation Management team: The Reservation Management team owns critical surfaces, flows, and platforms surrounding the booking Airbnb experience for our guests and Hosts. Within our Guest & Host organization, among other areas this team owns the systems and surfaces responsible for recording all orders at Airbnb and providing a scalable product and foundation for additional products such as travel insurance, Experiences, and more. With users around the world, development speed, reliability, scalability, and efficiency enabling Airbnb’s vision to “Perfect the core” and “Expand beyond the core” are our team’s core concerns. The Reservation Management team has multiple open Staff backend roles spanning product focused through platform focused. Regardless of scope, as a Staff Engineer on the team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of talented, diverse software developers to operate and improve our core Reservation / Order Platform and drive additional products at Airbnb! The Difference You Will Make • 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 • Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions • Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals • Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations • Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills • Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence • Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others • At the staff+ level, our engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb. Your Expertise : • 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment • Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures • Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality • Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers • End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization • Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user experience 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. Airbnb,Inc. can be employed in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, 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 best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Apply tot his job

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