Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Quality Platform
Job description
Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack on Airbnb's Quality Engineering team, building and evolving test automation and tooling, including AI/LLM-based approaches, to help Airbnb engineers build high-quality software efficiently.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Brazil
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases
- Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes
- Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency
- Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development
- Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes; debug issues found during testing and after release
- Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles
- Work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering and testing
- Demonstrable knowledge in at least one language used for web development (e.g., TypeScript, JavaScript) and comfort working in a backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go)
- Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
- Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
- Experience using quality signals such as coverage, flaky test rate, suite execution time, and escaped defects to prioritize work and demonstrate impact
- Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
- Curiosity about applying AI/LLMs to testing and developer productivity
- Comfortable collaborating in English
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
Your team
Quality Engineering
Helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently; enables Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI; owns and continuously improves product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, and frameworks.
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About Airbnb
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
Mission
To develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams.
Key facts
- 2007
- San Francisco
- Over 5 million hosts
- Over 2 billion guest arrivals
- Hosts in almost every country across the globe
What they value
- Inclusion & Belonging
- Diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement