Software Engineer Intern 2022
Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.
At Airbnb, we use technology to create human connection all around the world. Our engineering teams see big challenges as opportunities to craft beautiful and scalable solutions that inspire technical innovation both in our company and across the tech and travel industries as a whole. As a summer engineering intern at Airbnb, you’ll be an integral part of our team where you will face our company’s most ambitious goals. We’ll provide the support, mentorship, fun, and real world experience needed to accelerate your learning and make a real impact on our product; you will write and ship projects to develop new features on our platform from scratch, strengthen our infrastructure, and delight our community of guests and hosts.
What are examples of work that Software Engineering Interns have done at Airbnb?
- We’ve created the backend and UI for creating Airbnb gift cards, allowing gift cards to be personalized to specific guests
- We built out new functionalities for Airbnb reviews, allowing users to search, summarize, and distill reviews of our listings into succinct and useful highlights
- We’ve developed a new, more intuitive interface for message threads to help hosts manage their conversations with guests more easily and efficiently
The following experience is relevant to us:
- CS fundamentals gained from current pursuit of Bachelor’s, Master's, or PhD degree in computer science, math or related discipline
- Experience using Java, Scala, Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails
- Experience using C++, and SQL for backend
- Experience using HTML/CSS, and Javascript for frontend
- Nice to have: Experience in Objective C, Swift (iOS), and/or Kotlin (Android)
- Leadership/community involvement
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- A housing allowance
- Volunteer Time Off + holidays
- Employee travel coupons so you can explore the product you’re helping build
- Company-sponsored tech talks and social events
- and more!
Note: Our 2022 summer program (we don't host fall/winter/spring internships at this time) is currently slated to be held virtually. We will keep interns updated on any changes in plans based on relevant medical guidance from our prior internship locations (San Francisco, Seattle).