Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Global Tax Engineering team as a Senior Engineer and contribute to innovative solutions that enhance business agility, efficiency, and accuracy. You will build microservices and APIs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and work on scaling distributed applications. This remote position, based in India, offers opportunities for career development, mentoring, and collaboration within a supportive and inclusive environment. You will be involved in launching and expanding protection products globally and working on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap. The role requires strong technical skills, experience in a high-scale web application environment, and excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years industry experience
• Prior real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions

Responsibilities

• Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs
• Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure
• Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work closely with Product, Pricing, Payments, 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

Benefits

• Inclusive and supportive work environment
• Career development-- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities
• Remote work