Senior Software Engineer Core Services i18n
Senior Software Engineer Core Services i18n
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Job Description
The Difference You Will Make:
The Internationalization team (i18n team) aims to foster global belonging and offer the best localization experience by providing reliable efficient scalable and extensible globalization infrastructure and tooling for Airbnb code content and stakeholders. In Bytelevel Researchs 2022 Globalization Report Card Airbnb ranked #3 among the top 150 global companies and #1 (for three years in a row) among all companies in the Travel & Hospitality sector.
The I18n team is a part of the Core Services org within Infrastructure and works closely with our broader Globalization business org to contribute directly to topline goals as well as make the entire engineering organization more productive. We are infrastructure engineers with a human focus: customercentric quality driven helpful and empathetic.
A Typical Day:
Millions of users across the world engage with the Airbnb app in their preferred languages every day. As an engineer on the i18n Infrastructure team you will be critical to the continued success and broad appeal of Airbnb. In this role you will have an opportunity to:
- Build intuitive workflows and tools to serve the needs of our stakeholders business partners and end users
- Drive down costs and land efficiency wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades
- Work crossfunctionally with partners in Globalization Data Science product teams and external vendors
- Build scalable systems supporting high qps realtime translation requests and efficient retrieval of translated content
- Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization
Were looking for engineers who:
- Want to tackle projects with large openended scope and drive significant business impact
- Love collaborating via product reviews code reviews and architecture discussions
- Are motivated to improve their teammates productivity
- Will be owners and stewards of Airbnbs multilingual capabilities
Your Expertise:
- 59 years of industry experience with a BS/Masters and 2 years with a PhD preferably in CS or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in HTML CSS JavaScript / Typescript and related web technologies
- Fluency in one or more backend server languages (Java/Kotlin/C/etc)
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React and GraphQL)
- Exposure to architectural patterns of highscale web applications such as welldesigned APIs data pipelines and efficient algorithms
- Experience or desire to work collaboratively in crossfunctional teams with design product and data science partners
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
