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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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 Checkout team is a critical team within the Booking & Pricing (B&P) organization. Booking & Pricing has a wide array of mission critical responsibilities across the Guest and Host experience including merchandising listings, enabling Booking and Reservation Management and managing pricing & calendar systems. As the Engineering Manager for Checkout, you will lead the team responsible for Airbnb’s Checkout online APIs and user experience across all platforms. The team’s work enables guests to seamlessly complete a booking and ensure Airbnb's core transaction is fast, trustworthy, and conversion-optimized at every step. In addition to working with other engineering organizations, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with cross-functional partners in Product Marketing, Design and Data Science.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the organizational and technical direction of the team
Build a robust team by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and regularly providing feedback
Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
Collaborate with internal teams and cross-functional partners to gain agreement by developing and communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities for the team
Implement an execution framework that detects problems early and enables thoughtful planning, tracking and reporting on the work of the team
Requirements:
5+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and teams across the engineering organization
Passionate about building intuitive and delightful products to solve real user problems while maintaining a high technical quality bar
Track record of growing engineers through promotion, meaningful scope expansion, or career pivots
Strong problem solver that has led a team operating large scale, mission critical production systems
Nice to have:
Expertise building & operating Booking related systems such as transactional systems, payment flows, or high-availability APIs
Experience evolving large systems through incremental migration strategies while maintaining product velocity