Staff Software Engineer - Hosting Services

London · GBP 120,000-150,000 / year · 9+ years experience · Posted Oct 16, 2026

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Join Airbnb's Hosting Services engineering team in London as a Staff Software Engineer to shape the next generation of services making hosting easier, smarter, and more rewarding.
Drive technical direction, build products from the ground up, and rethink engineering innovation as part of an expanding ecosystem of Host services.

Build new products from zero to one by leading the technical design and development of new customer-facing products, services, and third-party integrations.
Shape technical strategy and architecture by defining the future state of major systems and services.
Accelerate engineering innovation by identifying new approaches, reusable patterns, tooling, and AI-enabled development opportunities.
Own the full product lifecycle by partnering with product and design teams from early discovery and ideation through development, launch, and iteration.
Lead across the technology stack by applying expertise across backend systems, APIs, frontend, mobile, and distributed architecture.
Drive technical excellence by guiding engineers across teams in making sound architectural decisions and maintaining high standards.
Influence beyond your immediate team by collaborating with engineering, product, UX, data science, data engineering, and business stakeholders.
Challenge what's possible by bringing fresh thinking and proactively identifying opportunities to build better products.

9+ years of software engineering experience, ideally within fast-paced, product-led technology environments.
Strong backend engineering expertise, including designing and developing large-scale, service-oriented, and distributed systems.
Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one.
End-to-end product ownership experience with iterating on launched products and responding to customer feedback.
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, efficient algorithms, and reliable integrations.
Sound technical judgment balancing speed of delivery, experimentation, scalability, and long-term engineering quality.
Product-first engineering mindset.