Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Airbnb

2d • Remote

About The Position

Airbnb's mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Airbnb Payments team supports this mission by economically empowering Airbnb businesses and our global community of guests and hosts. The Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy-to-use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows, we’ll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts. The Payments Transactions team and Payments Payouts team are part of the core platform of the Airbnb Payments ecosystem. The teams are building the core billing system and payouts system for Airbnb money movements. The team engineers are responsible for the seamless orchestration and recording of Airbnb’s payment obligations with our community. They initiate, advance, and realize Airbnb’s payment commitments with our community in a way that is reliable, accurate, timely, scalable, and auditable.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• 1+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer is plus.
• Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Work on multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
• Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations.
• Work with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations.
• Work on systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior