Backend Software Engineer, Storefronts

Airbnb

3h•Remote

About The Position

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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 Storefronts team is responsible for the front-door to Airbnb’s guest product experience. The team aims to help users efficiently navigate Airbnb’s app and site, introduce new offerings on Airbnb’s global travel platform, and inspire users to discover the world with Airbnb. The team works on high impact surfaces across Airbnb’s homepage and search pages. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, and data science to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We also work closely with other engineering teams on systems that enable engineers to: develop more efficiently; create improvements that make the product more performant and extensible; and build technical architectures that are scalable and robust. The Difference You Will Make: Deliver useful, personalized new features for Airbnb’s homepage; enabling guests around the world to find places to stay and more on Airbnb. Support new, growing products on Airbnb’s global platform like Airbnb Experiences and Services. Contribute to technical improvements that make the team’s products higher quality and increase the team’s velocity.

Requirements

4+ years of software engineering experience
Developing backend applications and APIs in Java
Working in distributed systems & microservice architectures
Service monitoring and alerting techniques
Product sense to balance technical and product requirements to develop quality experiences for users
Collaboration skills with cross functional and non-technical partners
Willing to embrace challenges and changes with a positive attitude

Nice To Haves

Experience working in with GraphQL, Kotlin, Thrift IDL, and server driven architectures

Responsibilities

Develop new APIs to power interfaces that enable users to navigate and discover new Airbnb products.
Contribute to improving performance and robustness of backend services and architecture powering Airbnb’s homepage & search alongside other search product engineering teams.
Contribute to development of new product features and experiences with a cross-discipline group of engineers
Use AI tools to develop new features for Airbnb’s guests and tools for the Airbnb team to move faster.
Work closely with cross functional partners in design, product, marketing, and data science to bring new features from design to production.