Senior Software Engineer, Partner Ecosystem - Remote - USA

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 Partner Ecosystem Team is building a platform to integrate and partner with smart locks. Our team’s goal is to deliver a magical experience for guests from the start by making checking-in easier, while also creating tools to help Hosts manage their check-ins.

We partner with various third-party lock companies across the world, and many engineering teams across Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Partner Ecosystem team, you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services that interact with third party vendors to help make a guest’s trip experience seamless
• Work with third-party vendors to help them meet Airbnb’s technical standards
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and peer engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience
• Experience designing scalable and resilient service-oriented architectures 
• Previous experience working with third party API’s is a plus
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the …