Position: Software Engineer

Business Unit: Engineering , Airbnb India

Our Company

About Airbnb: Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a
trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique travel experiences
around the world. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month,
Airbnb allows people to Belong Anywhere through unique travel experiences at any price point
in more than 85,000 cities and over 190 countries. We promote a culture of curiosity, humanity,
and creativity through our product, brand and most importantly, our people.

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can
belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal.
Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is
committed to leading as a 21st century company.

We use technology to create human connection all around the world. Our engineering teams
see big challenges as opportunities to craft beautiful and scalable solutions that inspire
technical innovation both in our company and across the tech and travel industries as a whole.

About Airbnb India Tech: Airbnb India Tech team was set up in 2021 in Bangalore. We are a
fast-growing, up-and-coming office and home to the most hospitable people you will ever meet!
Our small and extremely capable team of Bangalore-based colleagues strive to make the
impossible happen for our inbound and outbound travelers within this big and diverse market.
Our Engineering team economically empowers the global community of entrepreneurs and
travelers. Within Payments Tech, we have Payments Platform, Compliance & Operations,
Payments Engineering Services, and Payments Data Engineering. These programs work together
to deliver reliable systems that allow guests and Hosts to make and receive payments with
clarity and ease.
 The Challenge
As a Software Engineer at Airbnb, you’ll be an integral part of our team where you will face our
company’s most ambitious goals. We’ll provide the support, mentorship, fun, and real world
experience needed to accelerate your learning and make a real impact on our product; you will
write and ship projects to develop new features on our platform from scratch, strengthen our
infrastructure, and delight our community of guests and hosts.

What are examples of work that Software Engineers have done at Airbnb?

● We’ve created the backend and UI for creating Airbnb gift cards, allowing gift cards to be
personalized to specific guests
● We built out new functionalities for Airbnb reviews, allowing users to search,
summarize, and distill reviews of our listings into succinct and useful highlights
● We’ve developed a new, more intuitive interface for message threads to help hosts
manage their conversations with guests more easily and efficiently
● We transform the foundational data provided by DEs into datasets (typically metrics &
dimensions) to address data consumers’ needs. AEs have deep business context, light
data engineering skills, and strong metrics development and data modeling skills.

What you need to succeed

● CS fundamentals gained from current pursuit of Bachelor’s in computer science, math or

related discipline
● Experience using Java, Scala
● Experience using C++, and SQL for backend
● Experience using HTML/CSS, and Javascript for frontend
● Nice to have: Experience in Objective C, Swift (iOS), and/or Kotlin (Android)
● Leadership/community involvement
● Experience using SQL, Python & building Machine learning models
● Domain expertise on business metrics and dimensions
● Expert on metric design practices
● Expert on internal data tools and usage patterns
● Knowledge of end-to-end offline data architecture
● Ability to develop and maintain simple Spark batch data pipelines
● Ability to create and maintain dashboards & reports in Superset & Tableau

“We are looking for people with entrepreneurial attitude - the insurgent mission, the front-line
obsession and the owner’s mindset” - Team Airbnb India Tech