Staff Software Engineer, HotelTonight (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Airbnb is a leading hospitality service that has grown significantly since its inception in 2007. They are seeking a Staff Engineer with expertise in backend engineering to build a next generation Hospitality & Booking Platform, focusing on ensuring high availability and scalability of their backend systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver guest & hotel partner facing features

• Ensure high availability, scalability and speed of our backend systems.

• Evaluating, identifying & defining improvements to the existing infrastructure. Drive long term technical roadmap for the team.

• Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout

• Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the HotelTonight platform

• Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs

• Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack

• Mentor and support other engineers in the team and related teams

Qualifications:

Required:

• 9+ years experience with Java or Ruby

• Problem solver - able to evaluate technical approaches to problems and provide viable alternative solutions

• Communicator - clearly and effectively communicate with senior stakeholders

• Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and key/value stores

• Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems in previous positions

• Experience with server driven UI architectures, patterns, and API design

• Strong project scoping and project management skills

• Ability to mentor other engineers on the team.

Company:

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.