Senior Software Engineer, Payments
Senior Software Engineer, Payments
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Senior Software EngineerPayment Economics
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
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. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnbs belongs anywhere are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars in 191 countries with 75 currencies through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows well be adding new payment partners global licenses compliance and regulation controls and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.
The Difference You Will Make:
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Cost and Economics Payments Org youll need to be passionate about payments. You will lead through influence and collaboration to transform concepts into reality. Your deep understanding of how money moves between merchant platforms and payment processing partners including payment gateways processors acquirers card networks and issuers will be needed for ideating advocating and driving cost efficiencies across our payments platform. Youre expected to be comfortable with ambiguity and help the team enjoy working backwards from highly ambiguous starting points by leveraging data running experiments and following a structured approach to build business use cases that influence a diverse team of engineers data scientists finance compliance legal and business experts. You should be able to guide and navigate the team through technical and regulatory constraints while simultaneously distilling and communicating complex subject matter to payments and non-payments stakeholders. You will have to be passionate about building a high performing team and creating a unique culture. You will be expected to lead the team to work with engineers in the US to tackle these complex challenges.
Aligned with our company mission Belong Anywhere we value the importance of diversity and belonging in the workplace and thats why we commit to not discriminating on basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
A Typical Day:
- Build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems
- Work with data scientists business analysts and operations to define capture and use
real-time event data for business insights and product features - Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to participate in validate and evolve
how we build test and deploy code in a distributed Service-Oriented Architecture - Alter existing and develop new data access and protection patterns to ensure our
communitys personal data is safe and secure at scale
Your Expertise:
- 5-9 years of industry experience
- Backend or Full-Stack experience in a work-setting or classroom-setting.
- Work experience open-source code or coursework in any of the following languages: C/C Java C# Python/Django Ruby/Ruby on Rails
- Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large high-scale web application (e.g. well-designed APIs high volume data pipelines efficient algorithms).
- Understanding of data structures and problem solving approaches and ability to articulate trade offs
- Passion for creating highly effective technology platform for our growing global workforce
- Experience with Agile development
- Be future looking; we might be focused on immediate regulations but need to build for the long term
- Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself
- Focus on building high quality products; every one of our flows affects the business bottom line
- Data driven in how you solve problems and validate youve solved them correctly
- Have a strong desire to mentor the careers and development of other engineers
- Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.
- BS in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent work-related experience
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement and allow us to attract creatively-led people and to develop the best products services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
