Description

You will drive technology and implementation strategy for building next-generation tools for Airbnb hosts, working with product and ML engineers to devise solutions to customer problems. You will prototype new ideas, influence product strategy, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve APIs and architecture. You will also mentor and grow more junior engineers while setting technical direction and best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years industry experience
• Experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building launching high-impact user-facing products
• Experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams
• Excited to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices

Responsibilities

• Work with product and ML engineers to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
• Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
• Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
• Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop backend to support data and AI solutions
• Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hand-ons implementation
• Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
• Mentor and grow more junior engineers