Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Reservation Platform and Additional Products
$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
- You are a strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production systems before
- You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
What the job involves
- The Booking & Pricing organization has a wide array of mission critical responsibilities across the Guest and Host experience including merchandising listings, enabling Booking and Reservation Management and managing pricing & calendar systems
- In addition to working with other engineering organizations such as Payments and Trust, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with cross-functional partners in Product Marketing, Design and Data Science
- You will lead the Reservation Platform & Additional Products team which owns the system responsible for recording all orders at Airbnb and providing a scalable foundation for additional products such as travel insurance, Experiences, and more
- With users around the world, development speed, reliability, scalability, and efficiency are our team’s core concerns
- Leadership: Lead the organizational and technical direction of the team
- Proactively share context to help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
- Team Building: Build a robust team by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and regularly providing feedback
- Tech Quality: Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
- Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams and cross-functional partners across Bookings, Payments and Trust to gain agreement by developing and communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities for the team
- Planning & Execution: Implement a execution framework that detects problems early and enables thoughtful planning, tracking and reporting on the work of the team
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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