Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

The Community You Will Join:

The Marketing Technology team is focused on building the best-in-class platform to enable marketing and merchandising at Airbnb. We build marketing automation tools and systems that are used by our stakeholders in Marketing (Brand and Performance), the Guest Experience and Hosting product development teams, Policy, and more. We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer who can lead efforts to build a scalable marketing platform that enables delivering personalized content to Airbnb users on-site (eg. Landing Pages, SEM/SEO pages) and off-site such as with emails and push notifications.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for seasoned senior software engineers across multiple pillars of our organization to build this best-in-class platform. Areas of impact may include: 

• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to design and deliver high-quality products to be served across various marketing channels.
• Design and build technology for serving marketing content to guests and hosts via scalable and personalized landing pages, emails, push notifications, and in-product content.
• Design and drive new integrations across other Airbnb teams.
• Work with customers to identify usability issues and proactively fix them.
• Build relationships with backend engineers in product orgs (e.g. Homes, Experiences) to extend Airbnb’s core functionality for marketing purposes.
• Effectively partner with product engineering, machine learning, and infrastructure teams to enable personalization on MarTech product surfaces.
• Scale existing systems to support new use cases and high-profile marketing launches.

A Typical Day: 

• Develop custom solutions to integrate with external Ads Platforms (e.g., Google, Facebook, Trivago, ImpactRadius, etc) via API
• Design and implement privacy centric marketing event tracking solutions to support business operations
• Automate production pipelines and integrate with upstream/downstream data sources E2E
• Build backend services for various internal tools (e.g., Analytics Hub, Dimension Manager, Ads Connect, etc)
• Build scalable platform for offsite and in-product content configuration, hydration and rendering.
• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to design and deliver a scalable content platform

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Experience leading execution of ambiguous, multi-quarter projects, including other engineers and refining unclear requirements into clear projects and deliverables.
• Fluency in JVM Technologies (Java, Kotlin), Graphql, SQL, Data stores.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals.
• Experience with MarTech product stacks (Landing Pages, SEO, Emails, Push Notifications, Audiences…etc) as plus.

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.