Senior Backend Software Engineer, Payments Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $196k - $227k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Work on multi-team technical initiatives and collaborate cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine requirements, and prioritize engineering systems • Architect and implement complex features using data-driven decision-making and performance optimizations • Collaborate with engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations • Identify systemic improvements to streamline development, reduce toil, and increase technical quality and operational excellence • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions • Perform technical design and code reviews • Design and build scalable, highly available payments systems in collaboration with product, data science, and operations teams • Help evolve Airbnb’s global payments platform and financial system of record

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role • 1+ years of relevant industry experience in Payments/Fintech as a backend software engineer is a 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 • Hands-on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, and mentoring engineers • Passion for efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality • Experience defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders • Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives across teams, departments, and leadership • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits eligibility • Employee Travel Credits • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager • Disability-inclusive application and interview process with reasonable accommodation