Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Payments Funds Ledger team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to building a reliable, scalable payment platform. You will design and build highly scalable distributed systems, make critical technical decisions, and advise on architecture. Responsibilities include coaching junior engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and contributing to the team's roadmap. The ideal candidate possesses 9+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years in payments, and a deep understanding of distributed systems and async programming. This US-remote eligible position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including bonus, equity, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software development experience with a minimum of 5 years experience working within payments
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems
• Experience driving initiatives that span across teams or departments
• Ability to work independently while showing being able to deliver production ready code with minimal guidance
• Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await)
• Experience with Java
• Experience with relational databases and caching solutions
• Experience in designing APIs and building RESTful services
• Experience with message queuing, data streaming, and workflow frameworks
• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architecture
• Experience with Agile software development and Agile software solutions

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems
• Make and own critical technical decisions
• Advise on architecture and propose solutions to complex payments problems that span multiple teams and organizations
• Provide guidance on the performance, scalability, reliability, testability, and engineering best practices of the payments platform
• Coach and mentor junior engineers
• Champion a culture of quality and engineering excellence
• Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to turn high-level ideas into concrete initiatives
• Actively contribute to defining and managing the team’s roadmap
• Design and build a platform that has strong reliability, availability and redundancy function
• Build APIs and data models that can handle high QPS traffic with strong consistency and availability
• Implement effective monitoring and alerting to ensure smooth functioning of the platform
• Partner with Product and other stakeholders to innovate and lead new initiatives to improve our Payments transactions recording, orchestration, anomaly detections, reconciliation, payin and payout qualities
• Use agile methodologies such as Scrum for effective planning and execution of projects that advance the roadmap
• Maintain and resolve technical debt in payments platforms

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits