Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Marketing Technology (MarTech) team is responsible for providing a state-of-the-art platform to enable effective marketing and product engagement with our customers. Our platform reaches millions of Airbnb guests and hosts daily through various channels, including onsite pages, emails, push notifications, and external ad platforms like SEM on google.

The Difference You Will Make:

As part of the technical leadership team, you will be responsible for driving technical strategy, alignment, architecture and execution for Marketing Technology’s unique problem space. Although this role is one of the highest levels of seniority at Airbnb, all Software Engineers at Airbnb are expected to be hands-on and contribute code and be involved in the architecture / design.

A Typical Day:

• Be part of marketing technology leadership team
• Architect and build reliable and scalable solutions to enable no code content management system.
• Advisory to marketing technology leadership team on technical direction of the organization
• Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes.
• Understand and uplevel frontend architecture and quality at Airbnb
• Partner with senior leaders across the broader technical organization at Airbnb to ensure we are building the right solutions.
• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to understand requirements and explore potential solutions.
• Perform architecture and code reviews, mentor staff engineers to uplevel talent at Airbnb

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of web development experience, ideally building, leading, and architecting frontend products and systems at enterprise scale with a great impact
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading platform teams, setting frontend technical direction and strategy at a company level, and working cross functionally with product, design and engineering teams
• Experience supporting and advocating large organization of 100+ engineers
• Extensive experience with frontend architecture and hands on experience with HTML, CSS, Typescript and React
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business stakeholders to develop a unified approach to content platform infrastructure
• Good understanding of cross-platform client similarities and differences to advocate for or against UX patterns and/or technology choices.
• Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
• Deep understanding of FE architecture to advocate for or against UX patterns and/or technology choices.
• Deep understanding of rendering and client-side performance considerations

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 registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range$244,000—$304,000 USD