Remote Staff Software Engineer, Payments
at Airbnb

Summary

Join Airbnb's Payments Processing team as a Staff Software Engineer to design and build a payments gateway platform that is fast, easy to integrate with, reliable for money movements, smart to route our business cost-effectively, resilient to any external processor downtime in any market, and accurate for Financial reporting.

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 system and service-oriented architecture
• Experience with Agile software development and Agile software solutions

Responsibilities

• Make technical decisions
• Provide technical guidance for engineers and teams
• Advise on architecture and propose solutions to payment problems that span multiple teams and organizations
• Consult on the performance, scalability, architecture, reliability, testability and engineering best practices of payment gateway systems
• Lead a cross-team group of engineers and partner with product, data, finance, operations to push the boundaries of what payments gateway platform can support
• Lead a group of 5-8 engineers to design and build our next generation of service-oriented-architecture gateway platform, making the processor integration simple, fast, flexible, and robust
• Design and build a platform that has strong redundancy function and is processor agnostic for compliance, vaulting, and transaction processing
• Partner with Design and Product to innovate and lead new initiatives to improve our orchestrations, anomaly detections, payin and payout qualities
• Collaborate with Partnerships and Product teams to define Airbnb’s payment scorecard and operational process