Tech Stack

Description

You'll build scalable backend services to accelerate international growth at Airbnb, partnering with cross-functional teams to adapt product capabilities for global markets. Your work will directly impact guest and host experiences across 220+ countries.

Requirements

• Fluency in English required; Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus.
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with strong track record shipping production systems.
• Solid understanding of large-scale backend architecture and distributed systems patterns.
• Proven ability to drive ambiguous problems to resolution.
• Strong programming skills in one or more: Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience building and operating backend services.
• High engineering quality bar: clean, testable, maintainable code; design with reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Data-informed decision making using metrics and experimentation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering teams and with Product, Design, and Data partners.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PM/Design/Data Science to clarify goals, requirements, constraints, and success metrics, and translate them into a sequenced technical plan.
• Write or review technical designs, align tradeoffs, and coordinate dependencies with partner teams across regions.
• Build production code and services with a high quality bar: testing, documentation, instrumentation, and performance/reliability considerations.
• Run design and code reviews, advise engineers, and help drive consistent engineering standards across the team.
• Own delivery: track execution risks, provide stakeholder updates, coordinate launches (including localization/market rollout), and monitor post-launch results to iterate quickly.