Senior Backend Engineer, Client Products & Emerging Technologies

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

The Client Products & Emerging Tech team is a newly established team that builds impactful product features for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts with new and existing technologies, as well as horizontal components such as navigation that aim to provide a cohesive user experience. The Senior Backend Engineer joining this team will play a critical role in the development of new features . They will be responsible for contributing to the broader technical vision for the team and building alignment across engineering and cross-functional teams - all while delivering a solution that is flexible, reliable and scales with the business needs.

The team is part of the Client Foundation & Products organization, which is responsible for Airbnb’s product infrastructure including Design Language System (DLS), UI frameworks, media frontend, and data access across different client platforms (Android, iOS, and Web). It plays a central role in Airbnb’s overall client strategy, contributes to libraries such as Lottie and Epoxy, and has more recently enabled Airbnb’s transition to Jetpack Compose.

Learn more about Open Source projects at Airbnb, . Also, meet our Client Products & Emerging Tech leader, Cynthia Chu!

The Difference You Will Make:

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Partner with peer engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product
• Build efficient and reusable frontend/backend components, with high quality, while making sure to maintain performance and scalable systems
• Build services and APIs to drive existing and new features for web and mobile apps
• Work with data scientists and business analysts to define, capture, and use real-time event data for business insights and product features. 
• Drive down costs and land performance wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades

A Typical Day: 

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