Staff Software Engineer, Location
Job title: Staff Software Engineer, Location in San Francisco, CA at Airbnb
Company: Airbnb
Job description: The Community You Will Join:
- The Location team at Airbnb is responsible for building a world class search experience for our guests. The team works on one of the most used features at Airbnb, the map search experience and aims to provide our guests the necessary location context for them to easily and efficiently find the right listings to book. The team also owns a family of products in the location space, such as point of interests, the places page, and guidebook.
- The team is cross-discipline with expertise in iOS, Android, web and backend development and works closely with other search teams, platform teams, and partners in design, product, and data science to deliver new search experiences for Airbnb's guests.
- Build the next-gen map search experience used by millions of guests.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers and other Engineers to design, prototype, and deliver high-quality guest-facing products on Desktop and Moweb.
- Identify areas of improvement and drive web best practices, as well as maintain a high quality bar in our codebase.
- 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend development.
- Bachelor's and/or Master/PhD's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
- Passionate about design and UX sensibilities
- Experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions
- Love collaborating via code reviews, architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates' productivity
- Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale
- [Bonus] Experience working on a Product team or customer-centric software supporting a medium to large engineering organization
- [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team's need
- [Bonus] Prior experience and/or interest in fullstack/front-end technologies