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Senior Software Engineer, Search Input
Location
United States
Posted
23 days ago
Salary
$191K - $223K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Write technical specifications for new features and systems.
- Provide mentorship to junior team members to support their career and technical growth.
- A Typical Day:
- Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required.
- Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design, and review and evaluate it with partner teams.
- Create and implement the technical design and code for a key initiative that enables impactful features/products on Airbnb’s search product.
- Review a team member’s technical design for an upcoming feature and provide feedback on implementations via code review.
- Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship features efficiently and improve product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Search organization.
- Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend/full-stack development.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- In-depth experience working in Java and/or Kotlin within a microservice architecture at scale.
- Passion for efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality.
- Passion for design and UX, with a focus on building user-centric products.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work well within a large engineering organization as well as cross functionally.
- Enthusiastic about code reviews and architecture discussions, actively contributing to improve teammates’ productivity.
- Experience working on a product team or customer-centric software for a medium to large engineering organization.
- 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.
- 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
- $191,000
- —
- $223,000 USD
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