Staff Software Engineer, Payments Compliance

Airbnb

3d•$212,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

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. Airbnb’s business grows rapidly year over year, and so does Airbnb Payments’ processing volume. Payments Compliance is an essential part of the Payments organization. Without it, Airbnb can be subject to fines and even forbidden from conducting business in certain markets. As a Staff Engineer in the Payments Compliance team, you would drive architectural decisions and implementation for the Compliance systems.

Requirements

9+ years of industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization.
Strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production systems before.
Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction and strategy.
Be future looking - we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long term.
End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries.

Nice To Haves

Prior knowledge of Regulatory Compliance standards and experience in implementing those controls
Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
Experience with HTML, CSS and modern Javascript frameworks such as React.
Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web and data applications.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and refinement of systems powering compliance.
Partner with technical leaders inside and outside of Compliance to design and build the Compliance systems that are service-oriented, configurable, auditable and efficiently leverage existing Airbnb capabilities.
Work closely with Product, Design, Policy, Operations and other cross-functional partners as part of a globally distributed team, to define and ship impactful features.
Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.
Lead and mentor engineers, both inside and outside your immediate team, in building solutions and developing skills.
Advocate for and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations. Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.