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Salary: USD 196,000 - 227,000 / annual
Airbnb's Payments Platform Engineering team owns the complete money settlement flow in the global marketplace—from collecting guest payments to paying out hosts. This role is a Senior Software Engineer position on a team that builds the platform infrastructure, core payment services, and user-facing payment experiences across all of Airbnb's lines of business.
You will design and build the next generation of Airbnb's Payments Platform: scalable, highly available systems that process massive daily transaction volume. Success means shipping reliable, well-instrumented services and product features end-to-end, with strong code quality and observability, while making Airbnb the safest and easiest-to-use payments platform.
In a typical day, you will:
- Design and build service-oriented, modular, observable backend systems with well-defined APIs
- Partner with product managers, data scientists, and operations to turn evolving business needs into product features
- Take features from ideation through planning, scoping, implementation, and experimental A/B testing
- Set up and tune monitoring and alerting to raise the quality and reliability of systems
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and review others' code to uphold engineering best practices
- Work with other engineering teams across Airbnb to improve engineering process and technical foundation
You will work closely with product managers, data scientists, designers, and operations, as well as engineering teams across Airbnb. The role is remote-eligible within the US, though occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites may be required as agreed with your manager.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in Payments or Fintech
- Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin, and comfort working within a microservices environment (RPC frameworks, service IDLs, dependency injection), plus familiarity with React or a similar JavaScript framework
- Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
- Experience delivering products end-to-end, including A/B testing
- Commitment to code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail, with experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
