Description

You will design, build, and launch new partner integrations for Airbnb's core product, working end-to-end with external partners and cross-functional teams to rapidly expand offerings like grocery delivery and smart lock integrations. You'll lead projects, create scalable backend solutions, and help define the technical direction of the Partner Integrations team.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience
• Experience designing scalable and resilient large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Experience leading projects
• Previous experience with third party API's is a plus.
• Previous experience with authentication or secure signing mechanisms is a plus.
• Passionate about reliability, efficiency, availability, and system quality.
• Good judgment in making and communicating tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• High sense of user empathy and the ability to identify and solve for user needs and friction.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, write and test new APIs and integrations with partners.
• Write documents to propose, align and document changes to the system.
• Debug external integrations and join the team on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Program, Design and Engineers, and directly with external partners.
• Provide input in team roadmap and technical direction.
• Build large scale backend solutions that are efficient, reliable, performant and scalable.