Vacation rental ranking

DesignHard55 minAirbnb style

Your task

Design the search-ranking system for a vacation-rental marketplace. A query (location + dates + guests) retrieves up to 10k eligible listings; you must rank them by predicted booking probability personalized to the user. Constraints: ranking adds at most 150ms over retrieval, the model is retrained nightly, and ranking must be consistent within a paginated session (page 2 follows page 1).

It covers

  • Learning to rank
  • Feature store
  • Online serving