Senior Software Engineer, Payments Transaction Risk

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ 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 scalable systems and robust infrastructure to detect, mitigate, and resolve risk issues across Airbnb's payments platform • Protect Airbnb communities and businesses from malicious activities and fraudulent actors • Build and maintain a long-term technology stack with well-defined APIs that is service-oriented, modular, granular, observable, and efficient • Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and cross-functional partners to build business insights, develop product features, and respond to fraud attacks and risk issues • Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors, payment networks, and processors • Develop and iterate on risk detection, mitigation, and resolution strategies as risk scenarios and business requirements evolve • Implement continuous monitoring and alerting to improve risk-system quality and observability • Collaborate with engineering teams across Airbnb to advance engineering processes and technical foundations

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience as a backend software engineer, preferably in Payments/Fintech • Proficiency in at least one major programming language, preferably Java, Kotlin, or Python • Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, including well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms • Experience delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation and experimental A/B testing • High standards for code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices • Experience or desire to work collaboratively with product, data science, design, and operations teams • Familiarity with experimentation and machine learning techniques • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills; detail-oriented • Ability to make data-driven decisions and articulate technical tradeoffs • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience • Fraud/spam detection or mitigation experience in the payments domain is a plus, but not required • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-eligible work arrangement • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities