Backend Software Engineer, Storefronts

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb’s Storefronts team is responsible for the front-door to Airbnb’s guest product experience. The team aims to help users efficiently navigate Airbnb’s app and site, introduce new offerings on Airbnb’s global travel platform, and inspire users to discover the world with Airbnb. The team works on high impact surfaces across Airbnb’s homepage and search pages.

The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, and data science to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We also work closely with other engineering teams on systems that enable engineers to: develop more efficiently; create improvements that make the product more performant and extensible; and build technical architectures that are scalable and robust.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Deliver useful, personalized new features for Airbnb’s homepage; enabling guests around the world to find places to stay and more on Airbnb.
• Support new, growing products on Airbnb’s global platform like Airbnb Experiences and Services.
• Contribute to technical improvements that make the team’s products higher quality and increase the team’s velocity.

A Typical Day: 

• Develop new APIs to power interfaces that enable users to navigate and discover new Airbnb products.
• Contribute to improving performance and robustness of backend services and architecture powering Airbnb’s homepage & search alongside other search product engineering teams.
• Contribute to development of new product features and experiences with a cross-discipline group of engineers
• Use AI tools to develop new features for Airbnb’s guests and tools for the Airbnb team to move faster.
• Work closely with cross functional partners in design, product, marketing, and data science to bring new features from design to production.

Your Expertise:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Developing backend applications and APIs in Java
• Working in distributed systems & microservice architectures
• Service monitoring and alerting techniques
• Product sense to balance technical and product requirements to develop quality experiences for users
• Collaboration skills with cross functional and non-technical partners
• Willing to embrace challenges and changes with a positive attitude
• Nice to have: Experience working in with GraphQL, Kotlin, Thrift IDL, and server driven architectures

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: [email protected]. 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.