Engineering Manager, HotelTonight

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.

About Hotels at Airbnb

Launched in 2011 and acquired by Airbnb in 2019, HotelTonight is a stand-alone hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless booking and exceptional deals at top hotels. Through features such as Daily Drop, personalized daily hotel deals, HotelTonight uses innovation to enable travelers to plan less and live more, while providing hotels new ways to sell inventory.

HotelTonight is a part of the Airbnb family. The hotels team at Airbnb is responsible for taking HotelTonight into  new directions and scale. The Airbnb platform also has hotel listings and the hotels team develops systems that help the Airbnb ecosystem have a wide selection of accommodation choices for our guests and the most effective tools for hosts to onboard, manage and thrive on Airbnb.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager in the Hotels team, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of tools and systems designed to help hotels integrate seamlessly with Airbnb and HotelTonight systems and position their inventory in the best possible way for both the hotels and our guests. You will own the user experience for hotel guests on HotelTonight and Airbnb to make the user journey painless, helpful and a delight. Your role will involve collaborating with Product Management and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and develop software and processes to make every HotelTonight and Airbb stay a five star experience. You will provide technical leadership to the team and develop long term technical roadmaps that position the team for greater success down the road.

Engineering Managers are comfortable operating in ambiguity. They enable their team to work backwards from highly ambiguous starting points by leveraging data, running experiments, and following a structured approach to build business use cases that influence a diverse team of experts across engineering, data science, finance, compliance, legal, and business. You will navigate the team through technical and regulatory constraints while simultaneously distilling and communicating complex subject matter to payments and non-payments stakeholders. You will have to be passionate about building a high performing team and creating a unique culture.

Responsibilities

• Shape the vision for our Hotels team that shall take hotels at Airbnb into the next phase of growth.
• Set the technical roadmap for the team. Help the team make the right choices.
• Work closely with your stakeholders to shape the technical strategy and drive alignment on the direction of the team
• Proactively share context with the team, help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
• Collaborate with the team in USA and Germany, manage the on-call support effectively supporting the market managers and operations team
• Mentor top engineers across the organization, establish and demand best practices through your engineering leadership
• Immerse yourself in the team’s entire software development lifecycle and have a hands-on impact in shaping the process
• Share your team’s work with Airbnb tech leadership, get buy-in, and influence product strategy across Airbnb to use your awesome platform.

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 6+ years of industry experience with a PhD
• Experienced building payments or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Successfully partnered with Product, Data Science, Finance, Legal, and/or Compliance functions
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build incredible engineering teams
• Actively coached and mentored team members in their careers
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

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Last updated on Aug 19, 2024