Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host (partner Integrations)

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer on the Partner Integrations team at Airbnb, focusing on integrating new business partners and functionality into Airbnb's product for both guest and host experiences. The role involves end-to-end project leadership, API design, backend development, and collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute directly to company growth in new areas as we explore partnerships outside of Airbnb.
  2. Lead projects end-to-end – from working with partners directly, to clicking that launch button.
  3. Identify patterns that allow us to scale new partnerships quickly in the future.
  4. Have attention to detail about the user experience.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of experience
  • Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
  • Experience leading projects
  • Good judgment in making and communicating tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
  • High sense of user empathy and the ability to identify and solve for user needs and friction.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Previous experience working with third party API’s is a plus.
  • Previous experience with authentication or secure signing mechanisms is a plus.
  • Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality.