Role Overview
Airbnb is seeking a data-focused Staff Backend Engineer to join the Marketplace Data and AI team. This role is crucial for crafting the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts and strengthening the data foundation for our products and business. You will be instrumental in driving technology and implementation strategies to help hosts run their businesses day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners.
The team works on components related to users, listings, and the marketplace, which are foundational to Airbnb. The quality of this data is critical to the success of our products and business, unlocking greater value from our data and machine learning models.
The Community You Will Join
The role is within the Marketplace Data and AI team, which is part of the broader Host and Guest communities at Airbnb. This organization works on improving the end-to-end Host and Guest experience and launching new product verticals.
Specific teams hiring include:
- Listings and Host Tools Data and AI (LHT-DnA) team: Supports host personalization products and provides data-driven solutions for a superior host experience, including managing your space (MYS) and host quality standards. This involves owning data pipelines and ML models and building serving services.
- Supply & Competitive Intelligence: Focuses on building systems that provide a real-time, comprehensive view of the global travel market, including competitor pricing, listings, and inventory supply. This work feeds ML models and data products that inform pricing strategy, supply growth, and product decisions for guests and hosts worldwide.
What You Will Do
- Work with product and ML engineers to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems.
- Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy.
- Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve APIs and architecture.
- Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop backend support for data and AI solutions.
- Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hands-on implementation of those solutions.
- Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing.
- Perform technical design reviews and code reviews.
- Mentor and grow more junior engineers.
Your Expertise
- 10+ years of industry experience.
- Experience leading teams, setting technical direction, and building & launching high-impact user-facing products.
- Experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers, as well as other engineering teams.
- Excitement to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices.