Senior Software Engineer, Cities

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join

The Cities Team at Airbnb is chartered with driving sustainable global growth by developing the necessary software systems to enable Airbnb to work effectively with local governments. This involves designing systems that allow us to flexibly model the breadth of regulations around the world, deploy them safely and operationalize thousands around the world. At the same time, we are stewards of our global business and build systems to maximize growth and retention of global supply. Advocating for fair regulations is key, as it establishes a clear framework for Airbnb's continued growth and ensures continuous business expansion.

This is a highly collaborative team that works in close partnership with Operations, Product, Policy and legal functions around the company. In addition, you will be part of a global team with members in the US and India.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will be responsible for building the tools and systems to scale regulatory launches worldwide with a focus on supply growth and retention. You will design and build product and platform features to achieve our goals. You will help define and maintain a culture of craftsmanship and excellence. You will represent the engineering team with global cross-functional partners across a variety of regulatory projects.

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with global cross-functional stakeholders for product alignment, requirements and shaping specifications
• Build our features and platforms for high-scale and reliability and employing engineering best practices
• Foster a culture of craftsmanship that emphasizes both the successful delivery of business initiatives and a commitment to quality
• Strategising and brainstorming opportunities along with Product, Partnerships & other cross-functional leaders and driving effective relevant metrics to measure the success of these initiatives.
• Support 24x7 engineering ops to maintain high reliability services

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of relevant engineering work experience
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Proficiency in one or more JVM based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.) are preferred
• Familiar with frontend web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React and Graphql etc)
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Successfully partnering with Operations, Policy, Legal, and Product functions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to structure complex, ambiguous problems, identify patterns, and propose data-driven solutions. Self-driven with strong project management abilities.
• Ability to drive end-to-end initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing timelines, and proactively removing roadblocks for high-quality outcomes in fast-moving environments.

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: Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

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How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$210,000-$220,000 USD