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Lead the Pricing & Availability Platform team, responsible for the engine that computes trip-level pricing, availability and related merchandising across the booking flow. The team specializes in low-latency, high-throughput systems powering Airbnb’s highest-traffic surfaces. The team is primarily backend focused, but produces outputs shown across many surfaces and is some of the most critical and high impact details affecting the guest experience and success of Airbnb’s core lines of business. Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into polished reality, nurturing a culture of technical quality and strengthening our systems along the way.
Job Responsibility:
Work with product, design and other stakeholders to determine and document requirements
Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and capabilities
Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and product quality
Establish and communicate overarching vision and high-level guidance for pricing architecture and integration by downstream teams
Handle resourcing and communicate deliverable plans
Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent
Requirements:
5+ years of engineering management experience
10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
Deep expertise with backend systems and complex data modeling in large-scale consumer applications
Excellent communication and presentation skills tuned for both technical or non-technical audiences
End-to-end, product-oriented mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively and find common ground with a wide range of teams who may have conflicting goals and priorities