<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><h2><strong>The Community You Will Join</strong></h2> <p>What if you could help shape the next generation of services that make hosting on Airbnb easier, smarter and more rewarding?</p> <p>At Airbnb, we're expanding beyond our core platform to create new products, partnerships and services that unlock opportunities for Hosts and introduce entirely new business lines.</p> <p>Our Hosting Services engineering team is entering an exciting phase of growth, with ambitious plans to accelerate the development of new products and third-party integrations. We're looking for a <strong>Staff Software Engineer</strong> who can help us turn that ambition into reality.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to shape technical direction, build products from the ground up and rethink how we scale engineering innovation. You'll join an ambitious London-based engineering team, collaborating closely with colleagues in the US, with the autonomy to challenge ideas, influence strategy and create meaningful impact.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>The Difference You Will Make</strong></h2> <p>As a Staff Software Engineer in Hosting Services, you'll play a pivotal role in defining and delivering the technical foundations for Airbnb's expanding ecosystem of Host services.</p> <p>This is more than an architectural leadership role. You'll be a hands-on technical leader, product thinker and strategic partner, helping take new ideas from concept to launch, then continuously improving them to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.</p> <p>You'll work across engineering, product, design and business teams to shape what we build, how we build it and how we scale our ability to innovate.</p> <h2><strong>Your Expertise</strong></h2> <p><strong>We're looking for an experienced, product-oriented engineer</strong> who combines deep technical expertise with the curiosity, ambition and leadership to build what's next.</p> <p><strong>Your impact will include:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Build new products from zero to one:</strong> Lead the technical design and development of new customer-facing products, services and third-party integrations, helping create new business opportunities for Airbnb.</li> <li><strong>Shape technical strategy and architecture:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Accelerate engineering innovation:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Own the full product lifecycle:</strong> Partner with product and design teams from early discovery and ideation through development, launch, iteration and product-market fit, ensuring solutions deliver measurable value to Hosts and the business.</li> <li><strong>Lead across the technology stack:</strong> Apply your expertise across backend systems, APIs, frontend, mobile and distributed architecture, remaining hands-on where needed to solve complex engineering challenges.</li> <li><strong>Drive technical excellence:</strong> Guide engineers across teams in making sound architectural decisions, navigating technical trade-offs and maintaining high standards of reliability, performance, efficiency and user experience.</li> <li><strong>Influence beyond your immediate team:</strong> Collaborate with engineering, product, UX, data science, data engineering and business stakeholders to align technical decisions with broader product and commercial objectives.</li> <li><strong>Challenge what's possible:</strong> Bring fresh thinking, question existing approaches and proactively identify opportunities to build better products, move faster and expand the impact of our engineering organisation.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Technical Experience & Capabilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>9+ years of software engineering experience</strong>, ideally within fast-paced, product-led technology environments, with a track record of delivering complex, high-impact solutions.</li> <li><strong>Strong backend engineering expertise</strong>, including designing and developing large-scale, service-oriented and distributed systems.</li> <li><strong>Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one</strong>, contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development and launch.</li> <li><strong>End-to-end product ownership</strong>, with experience iterating on launched products, responding to customer feedback and improving adoption, usability and business outcomes.</li> <