Staff Software Engineer

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Hosting Services engineering team in London. This team is expanding beyond the core platform to create new products, partnerships, and services that unlock opportunities for hosts. The role involves shaping technical direction, building products from the ground up, and rethinking how to scale engineering innovation. You will collaborate closely with colleagues in the US.

• Lead the technical design and development of new customer-facing products, services, and third-party integrations.
• Shape technical strategy and architecture for major systems and services.
• Accelerate engineering innovation by identifying new approaches, reusable patterns, tooling, and AI-enabled development opportunities.
• Own the full product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Lead across the technology stack, including backend systems, APIs, frontend, mobile, and distributed architecture.
• Drive technical excellence and guide engineers in architectural decisions.
• Influence beyond the immediate team by collaborating with engineering, product, UX, data science, and business stakeholders.

• 9+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced, product-led environments.
• Strong backend engineering expertise, including large-scale, service-oriented, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one.
• End-to-end product ownership with experience iterating on launched products.
• Broad full-stack engineering capability across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs, and system architecture.
• Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and reliable integrations.
• Product-first engineering mindset.

United Kingdom Annual Pay Range: £120,000—£150,000 GBP. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Apply through the Airbnb careers page at the provided link.