Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Staff GenAI Backend Engineer to lead engineering delivery on programs that enhance customer support through intelligent routing and personalized experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering delivery on strategic programs that enable intelligent agent matching, personalized support experiences for high-value customers, and next-generation routing and communication channel capabilities
- Own and evolve core routing infrastructure, including decision engines, workflow orchestration, and routing rule management. Ensuring high availability, correctness, and scalability across millions of daily support interactions
- Drive consolidation of fragmented routing logic spread across multiple platforms and channels into a centralized, auditable, and maintainable system
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Data Science, and partner engineering teams to align on priorities and deliver outcomes that improve the customer support experience
- Contribute to technical quality through design reviews, code reviews, and pragmatic architectural decision-making
- Play a critical role in building the team's technical depth by actively mentoring junior engineers, setting clear growth expectations, and driving a culture where engineers consistently level up
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, engineering, and data science teams to develop backend systems and enhance AI prompt effectiveness for routing and differentiated service experiences
- Lead and contribute across the full development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and production deployment
- Champion a culture of engineering excellence by role modeling best practices in design, code quality, and cross-functional collaboration, and creating an environment where engineers at all levels continuously grow
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure the reliability of routing infrastructure serving millions of Airbnb guests and hosts
- Engage in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and design doc sharing sessions to keep ARC's delivery on track
- Optimize system availability, performance, and scalability while pushing enhancements for improved efficiency across AI-driven routing workflows
- Collaborate with cross-regional engineering partners to align on shared routing capabilities and drive consistency across global support operations
Skills
- 9+ years of software development experience in service-oriented architectures and backend development
- Expertise in workflow optimization and backend systems, with a focus on scalable and flexible architecture
- Expertise in designing and iterating on prompt engineering to fine-tune AI capabilities for AI/LLM-driven scenarios
- Expertise of RAG patterns, memory routing, and agent planning
- Proficiency in crafting backend systems focusing on technical quality, efficiency, and resilience
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams and domains
- Passion for agile development, system optimization, and team productivity enhancements
- Bachelor's and/or Master's/Ph.D. degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
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