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Senior Software Engineer

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2007H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

103 days ago

Salary

$210K - $220K / year

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsGraph QLJavaKotlinMicroservicesPythonReactType Script

Job Description

• Join a talented group of engineers, work with smart teammates closely on high impact technical initiatives to keep Airbnb business scalable, performant and reliable. • Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs • Help set up and lead working group sessions, collaborate on current and upcoming projects including proposal and design doc reviews, roadmap planning, etc. • Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure • Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Over 7 years of industry experience in software development
Passion and quick on learning.
Experience on building real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of coding language includes Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python
Familiar with frontend web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React and Graphql etc)
Good understanding of LLM and transformer architectures (GPT, BERT, LLaMA). Have experience in fine-tuning techniques and hyperparameter optimisation. Experience with ML libraries (Hugging Face, Transformers or Langchain)
Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms