Staff Software Engineer (Hosting Services)

Join Airbnb's Hosting Services engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer. In this role, you'll shape the technical direction, build new products from the ground up, and drive engineering innovation. You'll collaborate with various teams, influence strategy, and create meaningful impact. This position offers the opportunity to work across the technology stack, own the full product lifecycle, and challenge existing approaches.

We're looking for an experienced, product-oriented engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the curiosity, ambition and leadership to build what's next

About Airbnb

If you're excited by solving complex problems, building products people genuinely want to use and turning bold ideas into scalable businesses, we'd love to hear from you

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and development of new customer-facing products, services, and third-party integrations, helping create new business opportunities for Airbnb.
• Define the future state of major systems and services, designing flexible, reliable, and scalable solutions that balance immediate product needs with long-term technical quality.
• Identify new approaches, reusable patterns, tooling, and AI-enabled development opportunities that allow engineering teams to deliver more products and integrations without proportionally increasing complexity or resources.
• Broad full-stack engineering capability, with the confidence to work across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs and system architecture as technical challenges require

Requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience, ideally within fast-paced, product-led technology environments, with a track record of delivering complex, high-impact solutions
• Sound technical judgment, with the ability to balance speed of delivery, experimentation, scalability and long-term engineering quality
• A product-first engineering mindset, with an understanding that technical
• Strong backend engineering expertise, including designing and developing large-scale, service-oriented and distributed systems
• Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development and launch
• End-to-end product ownership, with experience iterating on launched products, responding to customer feedback and improving adoption, usability and business outcomes
• Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, efficient algorithms and reliable integrations

Pay

GBP 120,000 - 150,000