Senior Software Engineer, Payments Platform

🕒 October 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $196k - $227k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Design and build the next generation of Airbnb's Payments Platform • Build scalable, highly available systems that process massive daily transaction volume • Design and build service-oriented, modular, observable backend systems with well-defined APIs • Partner with product managers, data scientists, and operations to turn evolving business needs into product features • Take features from ideation through planning, scoping, implementation, and experimental A/B testing • Set up and tune monitoring and alerting to improve system quality and reliability • Write high-quality, well-tested code and review others' code • Work with engineering teams across Airbnb to improve engineering processes and technical foundations

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in Payments or Fintech • Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin • Comfort working within a microservices environment, including RPC frameworks, service IDLs, and dependency injection • Familiarity with React or a similar JavaScript framework • Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications • Experience with well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms • Experience delivering products end-to-end, including A/B testing • Commitment to code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices • Strong communication skills and attention to detail • Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams • Ability to make data-driven decisions and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits • Employee Travel Credits • Remote work eligibility • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process