Staff Software Engineer, Host Calendar | Airbnb | Remote US

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<div class="content-intro"> <p>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.</p> </div> <h3>Host Calendar Mission and Purpose</h3> <p>The Host Calendar is a versatile tool that helps hosts in availability management and provide a customized view into their reservations. It helps host in revenue optimization by providing insights into the demand and market conditions around the calendar dates. It supports hosts in long term planning and maintains control over their schedule and property usage. We strive to provide an efficient centralized calendar that helps in providing a holistic view of bookings to ensure consistency in availability.</p> <p>Our ideal candidate has excellent interpersonal skills to navigate and make informed trade-offs that take into account business priorities, user experience, and the establishment of a robust technical foundation. The candidate has an absolute commitment to quality, is highly experimental, and not afraid to try solutions. If you are a fervent supporter of a strong technical foundation that supports the user needs and seek a role in a dynamic, teamwork and product-oriented setting, we invite you to reach out to us!</p> <h3>The Community You Will Join:</h3> <p>The Host Calendar team is looking for a Staff Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. We create tools that help our hosts run their business, giving them insights to help them better price their properties that hopefully lead to better returns. As a Staff Engineer working in the Host Calendar team, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day.</p> <h3>A typical day</h3> <ul> <li>Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems</li> <li>Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop Host calendar and availability functionality and surface insights / analytics</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations as well as drive hand-ons implementation of those solutions;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline</li> <li>Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers to improve their software development craft</li> <li>Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense</li> <li>Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth</li> </ul> <h3>Your expertise</h3> <ul> <li>10+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience)</li> <li>Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers and setting the technical direction</li> <li>3 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.</li> <li>Previous experience with domain driven design and context mapping</li> <li>You are a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle.</li> <li>You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.</li> <li>You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.</li> </ul> <h3>Your location</h3> <p>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.<a href="https://careers.airbnb.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Click here</a> 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.</p> <h3>Our commitment to inclusion and belonging</h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <div class="content-pay-transparency"> <div class="pay-input"> <div class="description"> <h3>How We’ll Take Care of You:</h3> <p class="p1">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.</p> </div> <div class="title">Pay Range</div> <div class="pay-range">$204,000$254,000 USD</div> </div> </div>

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