[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Content Platform

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Marketing Technology’s Content Platform team to provide technical leadership in building a no-code or low-code platform for marketing communications, ensuring high-quality delivery and system uptime.


Responsibilities

  • Work with cross-functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to design and deliver high-quality products across multiple channels that directly contribute to Airbnb’s revenue
  • Lead efforts to architect and build technology for serving marketing content to guests and hosts across Airbnb’s stack—including our web frontends, GraphQL API gateway & business logic layer, and storage layer
  • Make heavy use of our mature DevAI stack to explore, build and verify your work
  • Think user first: you might optimize user experience page performance by improving our rendering layer, or how we fan out and fetch data in the backend
  • Work with customers to identify usability issues and proactively fix them
  • Build relationships with engineers in product orgs (e.g. Relevance, Stays, Experiences) and partner with them to support company-wide initiatives

Skills

  • 6+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
  • Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers
  • Demonstrated comfort in working in a fullstack environment—you might be a backend expert, but are happy building client components; or a client expert who is happy building efficient APIs
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
  • Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
  • Proven experience in defining product strategy and helping drive alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams
  • San Francisco Bay Area Location preferred
  • If you've worked in and/or have opinions about the current state of Marketing Technology
  • If you have demonstrable Agentic AI experience with production applications, or have explored enough in your spare time to be able to speak to it

Benefits

  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company Overview

  • Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is

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