Software Engineer, BizTech

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:

Global Tax Engineering at Airbnb solves some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business.

We are composed of multiple, highly skilled teams of engineers that own Guest and Host facing product experiences and backend systems that unlock and protect Airbnb’s ability to operate across the vast number of jurisdictions around the world. 

• Work on launching and expanding our protection products across global markets.
• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout. 
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.
• As a Software Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge with innovative solutions that enable business agility, efficiency, and accuracy. You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you will excel at solving a range of complex problems, developing end-to-end features, and strengthening your domain knowledge over time.

A Typical Day: 

• Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs
• Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure
• Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree B.Tech or BE, or equivalent technical qualification
• 3-5 years industry experience
• Strong hands on coding, data structures and algorithm experience using Java or Kotlin
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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.

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. 

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.