Staff Software Engineer, Guest & Host – Pricing Guidance Team

airbnb, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a product-focused Staff Backend Engineer to innovate tools for hosts. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences and drive product strategies. You will work on developing high-impact features, mentor junior engineers, and influence the technical direction of the team. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will foster creativity and innovation, making a real difference for hosts and guests alike. If you're passionate about building impactful products and leading teams, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Employee Travel Credits

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience with a focus on product development.
• Experience leading teams and influencing product direction.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design to solve customer problems.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices in development.

Skills

Team Leadership

Technical Direction

User-Facing Product Development

Communication Skills

Mentorship

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Guest & Host - Pricing Guidance Team

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high-quality experiences for our outstanding community of Hosts and Guests.

The Pricing team empowers Airbnb hosts to better run their business by providing the tools and education to implement pricing strategies that adapt to their evolving goals. The Pricing Guidance team sits in this area and works closely with other engineering teams, Data Science, Modeling, Design, and Product to help our hosts.

The difference you will make

We are looking for a product-focused Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. As a Staff Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals.

A typical day

• Work with product and design partners 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 our APIs and architecture
• Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop new host pricing functionality
• 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 industry experience
• You have experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products
• You have experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams
• You are excited to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• You have demonstrated an ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices

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: [e-mail]. 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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.