Fullstack Software Engineer, Search

Full Time
3 months ago

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

  • Airbnb’s Search Feed team is responsible for the front-door to Airbnb’s guest search experience. The team aims to help users make decisions effectively by surfacing contextual and relevant information, providing ways to narrow and expand searches, and showing personalized results. Some of the team’s past projects include Guest Favorites, Airbnb Categories, and Split Stays.
  • The team is cross-discipline with expertise in iOS, Android, web, and backend development. It works closely with backend search teams, platform teams, and partners in design, product, data science, and marketing to deliver new search experiences for Airbnb’s guests.

The Difference You Will Make:

We’re looking for talented engineers who can fluidly work across the stack to build best-in-class user experiences. You will collaborate across functions and across the engineering org to build new search features and make crucial improvements to existing ones. You will contribute to (and drive!) foundational improvements that improve developer efficiency, page performance, product accessibility, and system observability.

A Typical Day:

  • Independently collaborate with cross-functional partners to align on product requirements, project milestones, and execution plans.
  • Prototype new features to assess technical feasibility across the stack, collect partner feedback, and align on ideal product solutions.
  • Lay out and execute on end-to-end technical plans; from component and API design to integrations with backend search systems.
  • Performance benchmarking and profiling to understand and root-cause regressions in our product experience.
  • Support the team’s efforts to improve code quality, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.

Your Expertise:

  • 2+ years of software development experience building products for the web
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
  • Experience working with one or more backend languages (Java preferred)
  • Experience working with TypeScript/JS, React, GraphQL, and REST APIs
  • Comfortable working across the stack, implementing and shipping changes on both the frontend and backend.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within an engineering organization and across functions.
  • Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution.
  • [Bonus] Experience working on a product engineering team or customer-centric platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization.
  • [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs.

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: 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.  

Pay Range$153,000—$184,900 USD