Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

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 a Senior Staff technical individual contributor, you will be responsible for driving technical strategy, alignment, and execution for marketing technology’s unique problem space. Even at a senior level, all Software Engineers at Airbnb are expected to be hands on and contribute code, and be involved in the architecture / design.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to understand requirements and explore potential solutions.
• Partner with senior leaders across the broader technical organization at Airbnb to ensure we are building right solutions.
• Architect reliable and scalable solutions to enable no code content management system
• Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation.
• Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes.
• Perform design and code reviews and up-level other engineers at Airbnb.
• Work with other Airbnb teams to understand and uplevel Airbnb’s frontend

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of web development experience
• Experience building, leading, and architecting frontend products and systems at enterprise scale with a great impact
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading platform teams, setting technical direction and strategy, and working cross functionally with product, design and engineering teams
• 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

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.