Staff Engineer, Guest Displays & Platforms

The Community You Will Join

The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) along with Pricing & Availability across the booking flow for all products (Homes, Hotels, Experiences, Services). Our work is at the heart of the Airbnb guest UX, so we work very closely with many teams, including Search, Checkout, Listings, Users, Host Settings, Payments, Tax, Cities, and Trust to create a seamless and consistent guest experience.

The Difference You Will Make

• Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
• Mentor and grow the capabilities of your peers
• Pioneer the way we use AI to build and the way we utilize AI in features for our guests
• Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

Your Expertise

• 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
• End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions