About the position
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 Airbnb Hotels organization, which includes HotelTonight, is a fun, entrepreneurial, start-up team where you can have outsized impact. Simplicity is at the core of our products. We pride ourselves on delivering the smoothest and most intuitive hotel booking experience. For hotels, we make it easy to drive incremental bookings so they can focus on the craft of hosting. We aspire to facilitate hotel discovery and serendipity at scale, benefitting guests and hotel partners.
Responsibilities
- Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems by rapidly prototyping
- Recognize technical challenges in the early stages and collaborate closely with the team
- Take an active role in leading and working with Engineering partners to create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations
- Hands on develop, working with teams on edge solutions to problems that come about when developing at scale
- Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter
- Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline
- Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
- Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s
Requirements
- 9+ Years of industry experience
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Experience shipping one or more Swift or Objective-C iOS apps, ideally currently available in the App Store
- Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
- Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming
- Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for iOS client development)
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Interest in innovations within the mobile industry
Nice-to-haves
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- Experience with prototyping is a big plus
Benefits
- Base pay range of $204,000—$260,000 USD
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity options
- Employee Travel Credits
