Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $212k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Architect and lead the technical strategy for our pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust today and evolve alongside business needs. • Lead the development and optimization of Airbnb’s core pricing and availability products. • Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools. • Contribute to the long-term backend system architecture within the Host Pricing organization. • Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers to elevate the organization's technical maturity.

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar • Proven track record of leading teams, setting technical strategy, and launching high-impact product features • Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures. • Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams. • Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality. • Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills. • Strong problem-solving and production debugging abilities.

🏖️ Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.