Staff Software Engineer, Hosting Services: Scale & Innovate

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical foundations for Hosting Services, leading the development of new products and third-party integrations.

You will own end-to-end delivery across backend, APIs, frontend and mobile, influence architecture, drive engineering innovation, and collaborate with product, design and business stakeholders to deliver measurable value to Hosts and the business.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience in product-led environments.
• Strong backend engineering experience with large-scale services.
• Experience delivering customer-facing products from zero to one.
• End-to-end product ownership and iterative improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and development of new customer-facing products and integrations.
• Shape technical strategy and architecture for scalable systems.
• Accelerate engineering innovation with reusable patterns and AI-enabled development.
• Own full product lifecycle from discovery to launch and iteration.
• Collaborate across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs and distributed architecture.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Product ownership

Full-stack engineering

APIs

System architecture

Frontend development

Job description

Airbnb in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical foundations for Hosting Services, leading the development of new products and third-party integrations.

You will own end-to-end delivery across backend, APIs, frontend and mobile, influence architecture, drive engineering innovation, and collaborate with product, design and business stakeholders to deliver measurable value to Hosts and the business.