Software Engineer, Marketplace API

Airbnb

1d•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: The Marketplace API team is responsible for our integrations with our various business partners. Did you know there are millions of vacation rental homes that are managed through 3rd party software systems - that aren’t (yet) on Airbnb? Did you know that there are 3rd party tools our hosts use every day to make their job on Airbnb easier - that they can’t (yet) access through Airbnb? Did you know that there are countless service providers that want to get integrated with Airbnb? There are thousands of ways we could connect our hosts and guests to homes, products, and services that would complement their experience on Airbnb, but to date, those means of connection have been locked away in a secret lock box that is locked. The Marketplace API team is working to unlock those 3rd party (“3p”) software systems with a Key of Awesomeness, and use them to build a platform for connectivity: bringing hosts and guests closer to the things that matter. The Difference You Will Make: As a Software Engineer on the Marketplace API team, you will:

Requirements

4+ years of software engineering experience
Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
Experience leading projects
Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality
Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
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 Haves

Previous experience working with third party API’s is a plus
Previous experience with chatbot/AI product would be a plus

Responsibilities

Drive the company growth as it explores solutions outside Airbnb.
Lead cross-team projects end-to-end.
Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
Design, build and launch APIs and integrations with our internal and external partners
Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers to deliver high quality products
Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction
Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable
Mentor team members who have less experience