[Hiring] Software Engineer, Payments @Airbnb

Role Description

The Community You Will Join:

• Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services.
• Building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies.
• Maintaining an in-house global payments platform due to the lack of existing solutions with the required global reach.
• Adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences as the platform grows.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Designing and building scalable systems and robust infrastructure to mitigate and resolve dispute & chargeback issues.
• Saving monetary losses for Airbnb platform in the post transaction stage.
• Involved in building highly available and real-time risk services in collaboration with product, data science, and operations teams.

A Typical Day:

• Building and maintaining a long-term technology stack with well-defined APIs that is service-oriented, modular, granular, observable, and efficient.
• Working closely with data scientists, product managers, and other XFN partners to build business insights and develop product features.
• Building and maintaining integrations with third-party vendors/payments networks & processors.
• Developing and iterating on dispute & chargeback mitigation and remediation strategies.
• Focusing on continuous monitoring and alerting to improve the quality and observability of risk systems.
• Collaborating with other engineering teams across Airbnb to advance engineering processes and technical foundation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience (Payments/Fintech) as a backend software engineer.
• Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java/Kotlin/Python).
• Experience in React (or any equivalent JS library) would be nice to have.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing.
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with experimentation and machine learning techniques.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail-oriented.
• Capable of making data-driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in technical decisions.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in fraud/spam detection/mitigation in the payments domain is a huge plus, but not required.

Location

• This position is US - Remote Eligible.
• May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites.
• Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging

• Committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible.
• Diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement.
• All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
• Providing a disability inclusive application and interview process.
• Contact for reasonable accommodations: [email protected].

Benefits

• Base pay range: $162,000 — $186,000 USD.
• Role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.