Tech Stack

Description

You will join Airbnb's App Foundation team to build high-quality, performant backend capabilities that power guest and host experiences across the platform. You'll drive performance improvements, influence architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship impactful features at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong expertise in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/C++/etc.)
• Experience in building and scaling high-quality and high-traffic products in a distributed manner
• Deep backend expertise including proficiency with databases, cloud technologies, and asynchronous messaging systems
• End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries
• Passion for building strong collaborative relationships with other engineering product partners
• Ability to tackle large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact
• Able to self-serve on data analysis and make data driven decisions
• Rigorous attention to detail and ability to tackle ambiguous problems

Responsibilities

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners from ideation to implementation at scale
• Build efficient and reusable backend capabilities with high quality while maintaining performance and scalable systems
• Lead initiatives that measurably improve Guest and Host experience by improving app responsiveness, scalability, and reliability across key backend paths
• Drive a performance roadmap: identifying bottlenecks, prioritizing work by impact, and delivering improvements across services, data access patterns, and infrastructure
• Raise the bar on performance engineering by building tooling, benchmarks, and guardrails that prevent regressions
• Influence architecture and standards across Airbnb’s backend ecosystem, making systems more observable, more efficient, and easier to evolve