Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host

The Community you will join

Airbnb’s Search Feed team powers the core search experience that helps guests find their perfect stay. We develop highly impactful features, including Airbnb Services, Guest Favorites and Airbnb Categories, while collaborating closely with partners across design, product management, and data science to deliver experiences used by millions of people.

Additionally, we focus heavily on strengthening our technical foundation. Our work includes architecting scalable solutions that support our growing set of search features, addressing critical codebase pain points to boost developer productivity, and building robust infrastructure that enhance performance and reliability of search features.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will play an impactful role in building world-class search experiences for millions of Airbnb users. You'll solve architectural, performance, and scalability challenges while working with our codebase. You'll also guide junior engineers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

A Typical Day

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality Search features and enhancements for Airbnb iOS app.
• Identify areas of codebase improvements, drive mobile best practices and architect performant, reliable and scalable mobile solutions.
• Provide critical input in the team roadmap and technical direction.
• Prototype new features to collect feedback and iterate on to reach ideal product solutions.
• Effectively advise stakeholders on the technical scope and feasibility of complex product requirements.
• Follow data-informed approaches to conduct experiments and iterate on features.
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.

Your Expertise

• 5+ years’ experience developing iOS applications at scale with a high volume of users
• Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance and scalable consumer iOS applications, preferably using Swift and SwiftUI. Experience with Motion and/or prototyping is a big plus.
• A strong passion for iOS UI and UX development, with excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of app architecture, performance and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional partners.
• Enjoy collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
• Demonstrated adaptability and a flexible mindset to embrace changing priorities, willingness to shift focus between building new product experiences and strengthening our technical foundation.
• Passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a reg