Senior Backend Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Overview

Airbnb’s Payments team supports its mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Ledger team builds and maintains Airbnb's financial system of record and the platform that governs when money is held rather than moved.

Responsibilities

• Work on multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
• Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations.
• Work with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations.
• Work on systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Perform tech design and code reviews and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• Experience leading design, implementation, and deployment of one or more high scale, cross-functional payment systems.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.