Engineering Manager, Checkout (Booking & Pricing)
About the role
The community you will join
Checkout sits at the critical intersection of guest intent and a completed transaction - the moment where trust in Airbnb is either earned or lost. The team builds and is responsible for the end-to-end booking flow, from pricing presentation and payment processing to booking confirmation, ensuring that every guest experiences a smooth path to securing their purchase. Success here requires close collaboration with partners across Payments, Trust, Pricing, and other Product teams to deliver systems that are fast and reliable at scale. You'll join a team that holds itself to a high bar on engineering quality, takes ownership of outcomes that directly impact Airbnb's top line, and operates with a culture of rigor, transparency, and shared accountability.
The difference you will make
As a B&P Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a full-stack team of talented, diverse software developers to enable and optimize a best-in-class Booking experience that scales across all of Airbnb’s current and future product offerings. As a leader, you will:
- Develop a deep understanding of both our Guests’ needs and our technical systems to create and deliver a viable technical vision
- Proactively influence cross-functional partners and teams to align on deliverables that meet our Guests’ needs while improving the technical quality of the Booking system
- Lead a full-stack team of 10–14 highly motivated engineers by setting a high technical bar while actively investing in each engineer's growth and career trajectory
Day-to-day responsibilities
- Lead the organizational and technical direction of the team: proactively share context to help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
- Build a robust team by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and regularly providing feedback
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
- Collaborate with internal teams and cross-functional partners to gain agreement by developing and communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities for the team
- Implement an execution framework that detects problems early and enables thoughtful planning, tracking and reporting on the work of the team
Your expertise
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment