Software Engineer, Payments

Airbnb

23h•$162,000 - $186,000•Remote

About The Position

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. The Community You Will Join: Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to the Airbnb experience. The Payments org at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace. We build technology that powers Airbnb’s massive daily transaction volume to collect payments from guests, distribute payouts to hosts and everything in between. Our goal is to make the Payment experience on Airbnb as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible. Within Payments, Payins is a full stack team responsible for all aspects of the guest payment experience - generating quotes, onboarding new payment methods to allow guests to pay us in their preferred method of payment, and enabling self-serve methods to answer questions about their upcoming and previous payments. Payins engineers are expected to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners on Product, Design, Data Science, Legal, and more to bring their vision to life. The Difference You Will Make: We are a sizable team with outsized responsibility: all money moving into Airbnb flows through our systems. As a Software Engineer on the Payins team, you will build and own features that directly power that money movement. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and cross-functional partners to ship high-quality, high-impact launches - like Reserve Now Pay Later - while deepening your technical expertise and growing your impact over time.

Requirements

3-5+ years of software development experience.
Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Scala/Ruby on Rails/Python).
Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
Experience with or strong exposure to architectural patterns for high-scale, distributed web applications.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a keen attention to detail.
Comfortable making data-driven decisions and clearly articulating technical tradeoffs.
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

Contribute to cross-team initiatives that drive measurable impact on conversion and payment economics
Working with cross-functional partners on Product and Design to triage, scope, and evaluate feasibility of proposed features and functionality
Contribute to quality initiatives that reduce defect rates, improve incident detection, and strengthen response processes
Being a collaborative teammate that can help elevate the rest of the engineering organization