Senior Software Engineer, Global Markets (Backend)

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.

• Partner with PM/Design/Data Science to clarify goals, requirements, constraints, and success metrics, and translate them into a sequenced technical plan.
• Write or review technical designs, align tradeoffs, and coordinate dependencies with partner teams across regions.
• Build production code and services with a high quality bar: testing, documentation, instrumentation, and performance/reliability considerations.
• Run design and code reviews, advise engineers, and help drive consistent engineering standards across the team.
• Own delivery: track execution risks, provide stakeholder updates, coordinate launches (including localization/market rollout), and monitor post-launch results to iterate quickly.

• Fluency in English is required. Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus.
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record shipping production systems.
• Solid understanding of large-scale backend architecture and distributed systems patterns.
• Proven ability to drive ambiguous problems to resolution.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• High engineering quality bar: writing clean, testable, maintainable code.
• Actively raise the team’s technical bar through code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Data-informed decision making.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.