- Company: Airbnb
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: £120,000 – £150,000
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About the role
Join Airbnb’s London-based engineering team to help shape the next generation of hosting services. You will work closely with colleagues in the US to build new products, partnerships, and third-party integrations. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will influence technical strategy and drive innovation across the engineering organisation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and development of new customer-facing products and services from concept to launch.
- Define the future state of major systems, designing flexible and scalable solutions that balance immediate needs with long-term quality.
- Identify new approaches, reusable patterns, and AI-enabled opportunities to accelerate engineering innovation.
- Partner with product and design teams throughout the full product lifecycle, from discovery to iteration and market fit.
- Apply expertise across backend, frontend, mobile, and distributed architecture to solve complex engineering challenges.
- Guide engineers in making sound architectural decisions and maintaining high standards of reliability and performance.
Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced, product-led technology environments.
- Strong backend engineering expertise in designing large-scale, service-oriented, and distributed systems.
- Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, including product definition and launch.
- Broad full-stack capability with confidence working across backend, frontend, mobile, and APIs.
- Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, data pipelines, and reliable integrations.
- A product-first mindset with the ability to balance delivery speed, experimentation, and long-term engineering quality.
Pay and benefits
- Annual base pay range: £120,000 – £150,000 GBP.
- Eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.
- Employee Travel Credits may be available.
- Actual base pay depends on factors such as training, transferable skills, work experience, and market demands.
How to apply
Apply directly on Airbnb’s own careers website. Omadaily never charges job seekers.
