18 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and development of new customer-facing products, services, and third-party integrations.
- Define technical strategy, future-state architecture, and scalable solutions for major systems and services.
- Own the product lifecycle from discovery and ideation through development, launch, iteration, and product-market fit.
- Guide engineers across teams on architecture, technical trade-offs, reliability, performance, efficiency, and user experience.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, UX, data science, data engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Identify reusable patterns, tooling, and AI-enabled development opportunities to accelerate engineering innovation.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced, product-led technology environments.
- Strong backend engineering expertise designing and developing large-scale, service-oriented, distributed systems.
- Experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, including product definition, architecture, development, and launch.
- Experience owning and iterating on launched products based on customer feedback, adoption, usability, and business outcomes.
- Broad full-stack capability across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs, and system architecture.
- Strong architectural design skills involving distributed services, APIs, data pipelines, algorithms, and reliable integrations.
- Sound technical judgment balancing delivery speed, experimentation, scalability, and long-term engineering quality.
- A product-first engineering mindset with strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- London-based role on a team collaborating closely with colleagues in the US.
- Eligibility may include bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Airbnb provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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About Airbnb
Airbnb operates a global online marketplace that connects hosts offering homes, rooms, and unique properties with travelers seeking short-term stays and experiences. The company earns revenue primarily through service fees on bookings; founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ABNB) with over 5 million hosts and guest arrivals recorded in nearly every country.