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.

This role must be based in China Mainland. No Visa and Relocation support

The Community You Will Join:The Global Markets engineering team is focusing on evolving our guest and host experience for global markets through new product initiatives to accelerate international growth. Expanding in under-penetrated global markets is a key pillar of our company’s growth strategy. To achieve this, we want to innovate in every sense of the world and adapt our product to every corner of the globe. We want every user in each of our 220+ countries and regions to feel right at home.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Software Engineer in the Global Markets team, you will work closely with PMs, designers, data scientists and engineers across global teams to build products for Airbnb guests. You will work on projects that can span multiple areas, landing, search, pre-booking flow, etc. Also as a team member, you are expected to set and hold a high bar for the quality and best practices for the team, e.g. via code reviews and tech design reviews.

A Typical Day

Work with cross functional partners to understand product requirements and translate them into technical solutions, help create the roadmap for the projects
Discuss and align technical specifications and implementation details with other engineers, including cross-team engineers from Global
Write clean, testable and maintainable code to implement the features
Perform tech design and code reviews and advice/mentor other engineers
When you are the POC of the projects, drive the delivery, communicate the status to stakeholders and ensure the overall quality

Your Expertise

3+ years industry experience.
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale system/product (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
Extensive experience working with open-source code, or coursework in any of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Javascript / TypeScript.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.
Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.
Focus on building high quality products, every one of our flows affects the business bottom line.
Data driven in how you solve problems and validate you’ve solved them correctly.
Fluent in both Chinese and English

Your Location

This position requires Remote work within China Mainland. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

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.