- B2C
- Public StagePublicly traded company
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
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Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform
- Full Time
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About the job
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:
Global Tax Engineering at Airbnb solves some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business.
We are composed of multiple, highly skilled teams of engineers that own Guest and Host facing product experiences and backend systems that unlock and protect Airbnb’s ability to operate across the vast number of jurisdictions around the world.
The Difference You Will Make:
- We are looking for a self-motivated leader who is interested in working in a highly dynamic environment by collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geographical teams.
- As a Senior Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge with innovative solutions that enable business agility, efficiency, and accuracy. You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you will excel at solving a range of complex problems, developing end-to-end features, and strengthening your domain knowledge over time.
A Typical Day:
- Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs
- Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure
- Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
- Work closely with Product, Pricing, Payments, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features.
- Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.
- Lead and mentor engineers — both inside and outside your immediate team — in building solutions and developing skills.
Your Expertise:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years industry experience
- Prior real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#
- Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms
- Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.
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].
About the company
- B2C
- Public StagePublicly traded company
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator