Staff Software Engineer, Hosting Services — Build from Zero to One

Airbnb; City Of London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical foundations for hosting services. You will be a hands-on leader, influencing product strategy and driving scalable architecture across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with product, design and data teams, own major systems end-to-end and mentor engineers to deliver high-impact features for Hosts and guests alike.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering expertise.
• Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one.
• End-to-end product ownership.
• Broad full-stack capability across backend, frontend, mobile and APIs.
• Strong architectural design skills.
• Product-first engineering mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and development of new products and integrations.
• Define and shape the future state of major systems and services.
• Identify reusable patterns and tooling to accelerate invention.
• Own the full product lifecycle from discovery to launch.
• Collaborate with product, design and business stakeholders.
• Guide engineers in making sound architectural decisions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Full-stack

Product leadership

Architectural design

Technical judgment

Job description

Airbnb in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical foundations for hosting services. You will be a hands-on leader, influencing product strategy and driving scalable architecture across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with product, design and data teams, own major systems end-to-end and mentor engineers to deliver high-impact features for Hosts and guests alike.