Staff Software Engineer

The Community You Will Join:

Launched in 2011 and acquired by Airbnb in 2019, HotelTonight is a stand-alone hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless booking and exceptional deals at top hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory.

We pride ourselves with our obsession to be the premier and most loved way to book a hotel room.

The ​acquisition of HotelTonight in March 2019​ is part of Airbnb’s strategy to increase their overall supply of Hotels. ​Hotels have become a critical part of Airbnb's future growth plans - however, not just any type of Hotel. Airbnb has fostered an identity of being a source of unique and distinctive places to stay, and their Hotel strategy is reflective of that.

The Difference You Will Make:

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer with expertise in backend engineering and a passion for building a next generation Hospitality & Booking Platform that our guests and hotel partners love.  This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a fun, entrepreneurial, start-up team where you can have outsized impact -- all under the Airbnb umbrella.

In this role you will work on everything backend related including: ensuring high availability and speed of our APIs, helping scale industry-changing products, building security and anti-fraud solutions, implementing connectivity to our partners, and taking our infrastructure to the next level. Our tech stack is built on  Java, Ruby/Rails, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres and more.

A Typical Day: 

• Own and deliver guest & hotel partner facing features
• Ensure high availability, scalability and speed of our backend systems.
• Evaluating, identifying & defining improvements to the existing infrastructure. Drive long term technical roadmap for the team.
• Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout
• Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the HotelTonight platform
• Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs
• Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack
• Mentor and support other engineers in the team and related teams

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years experience with Java or Ruby
• Problem solver - able to evaluate technical approaches to problems and provide viable alternative solutions
• Communicator - clearly and effectively communicate with senior stakeholders
• Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and key/value stores
• Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems in previous positions
• Experience with server driven UI architectures, patterns, and API design 
• Strong project scoping and project management skills 
• Ability to mentor other engineers on the team.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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: [email protected]. 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.