Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Search

Join Airbnb's Storefronts Team

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Storefronts team, which is responsible for the front door of Airbnb’s search product. This team works on high-impact surfaces across Airbnb’s homepage, categories, and Experiences products, aiming to inspire our guests to explore and discover the best Stays and Experiences on Airbnb.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the team’s technical strategy and alignment with Search teams as well as infrastructure, relevance, and client foundation partners to enable the development of new features for Airbnb search.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of our systems and the broader Search team’s velocity working in them.
• Evaluate design explorations and provide input on technical feasibility.
• Provide mentorship to junior and senior team members to support their career and technical growth.

A Typical Day

• Host a review of the team’s foundation goals and technical roadmap with partners across search to get feedback and align projects and goals across the group.
• Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required.
• Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design and evaluate it with partner teams.
• Deliver the technical design and code for a key foundational initiative to enable multiple features/products on Airbnb’s search product.
• Maintain the health of Airbnb’s systems by leading incident response, monitoring trends over time, and delivering steady improvements.

Your Expertise

• 9+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience working in Java and/or Kotlin within a microservice architecture at scale.
• Experience developing on iOS, Android, or Web.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, and technical quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Location

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

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.

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. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Join us in creating a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Apply today!