Staff Software Engineer, Payments Payins

Summary

Join Payments at Airbnb as a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer on the Payins team to define the long-term technical vision for user experiences and libraries that power money movement at Airbnb.

Requirements

• 9+ years of Software Engineering experience w/ a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
• Extensive experience working in Java (or equivalent) within a microservice architecture at scale
• Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
• Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented
• Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions

Responsibilities

• Set the long term architectural vision for user experiences and backend systems that power money movement at Airbnb
• Attend a design share-out of an upcoming feature and provide feedback to design and product partners on feasibility and level of engineering effort required
• Develop a prototype for a new capability the team needs to develop to achieve the design and evaluate it with partner teams
• Identify new opportunities for impact on conversion, contact reduction, or quality and advocating for the staffing and prioritization of these opportunities
• Mentor engineers across the Payments Engineering team
• Deliver improvements that enable the team to ship and maintain product quality. Bring these improvements to the broader Airbnb engineering organization
• Maintain health of Airbnb’s systems by leading incident response, monitoring trends over time and delivering steady improvements Airbnb’s systems

Benefits

• US - Remote Eligible
• Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits